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This isn’t a new concept, though it took its damn time reaching public attention. The point is to let you know that it’s okay to not entirely fit one side of the spectrum or fit a strict binary, you can be somewhere in the middle. To put it in perspective, Kinsey believed that one could be heterosexual with homosexual tendencies, meaning they weren’t straight ALL the time, and vice versa. Although asexual may have been thrown in later as others reinterpreted and evolved his theory. Kinsey declared that there wasn’t just heterosexual and homosexual, that there was bisexual, incidentally homosexual and incidentally heterosexual, as well as asexual. Perhaps that’s how the rainbow became associated with sexuality (I don’t know, just speculating). Kinsey’s scale was inspired by the idea that human sexuality wasn’t so black and white, that instead it was more of a spectrum. Since before the 1950’s and up until recently, human sexuality has been a taboo subject. Of course perhaps, that’s what everyone says about those who are way ahead of their time. Alfred Kinsey in 1948, opening up a world of controversy. And then there’s some you who are waiting for my fancy introductions to be done with so I can tell you what the hell this weird scale is for. Some think the scale is rather blasphemous and too ridiculous of a concept. At first our sex life was really great but slowly it has been. For some of you kiddos, the Kinsey Scale is something that is too far beyond your beliefs to comprehend. I am an 19 year old girl and have been in a serious relationship with a guy for almost 3 years.