![]() ![]() ![]() Many of us like to put on blinders, and assume most people we encounter are straight or gay, and nothing else. But, as the Purple-Red Scale shows, there are so many other shades of, well, purple and red (Langdon used those colors because purple is the official color of asexuality, while hypersexual people are often referred to as “red-blooded.”) when it comes to relationships, sex, and attraction. Anthony Bogaert, a psychologist and professor who penned the book, Understanding Asexuality, approximately one in 100 people, may be asexual. And then there are people, like Miley Cyrus, who identify as pansexual. Introduction: An unambiguous measurement of the rate of nonheterosexuality in the male population (male bisexuality and homosexuality) is essential to. Our participants mean Kinsey Scale sexual orientation score was 1.94 (SD 1.8), shown by a one-sample t-test as statistically no different than a response of 2 (on a scale of 0 to 6), t(299. As far as Langdon’s Purple-Red Scale goes, it’s not necessarily so cut and dry: It doesn’t mean that every person falls cleanly into one lettered and numbered scale. But it does help show us that the range of sexuality and attraction is vast, and anything but black and white. Our society has definitely come a long way in understanding sexuality, sexual orientation, and gender identity, but we still have a long way to go as well - and things like the Purple-Red Scale can help us educate ourselves and others. ![]()
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