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Earlier this month approximately 1,600 people in Britain were asked by YouGov to plot themselves on a ‘sexuality scale’. Invented by Alfred Kinsey in the 1940s, the Kinsey scale plots individuals on a range of sexual dispositions from exclusively heterosexual at 0 through to exclusively homosexual at 6. Where the original study had a large number of methods for placing people, YouGov simply asked people to place themselves on the sexuality scale.  Below I’ve included some of the data points that I found most interesting.

• 72% of the British public place themselves at the completely heterosexual end of the scale
• 4% put themselves at the completely homosexual end of the scale
• 19% say they are somewhere in between – classed as bisexual in varying degrees by Kinsey
• 43% of 18-24 year-olds place themselves in the non-binary area
• 7% of respondents over age 60 identified any degree of bisexuality

Thanks for the heads up from Joe My God’s blog about this interesting survey. I found this a quick and interesting read. You can read more about the survey and findings from the YouGov website. 

Even though I read this article last week, I figured it would be fitting to post it following my weekly “Temptation Tuesday”.  Last week Nate Silver’s FiveThirtyEight website shared results of what percentage of the population masturbate.

This topic could conceivably cross the line for my pg-13 rated blog, but I figured I’d write about it because I find it strange that this remains a taboo topic considering the data.  I can understand the discomfort one might have if I were a parent talking my child, but this remains a taboo subject for many in society; especially women. I’m not looking for any confessions; how you spend your time is your business. Rather I’m just pointing out the irony of American culture and how strange our views towards sex and sexual pleasure remain even in 2014.