“Always the starfish, never the blowfish…”

In which the throbbers take the outdated Kinsey scale test to learn….

What exactly? No one knows!

Kinsey References

If you haven’t noticed, our episodes have been released in an intriguing order… and were also recorded a long time ago! Many eons ago! (back when the world was new…) We had a recording year long gap because of our first born, Harry Hotter and the Cursed Podcast, which we spent forever trying to fix and finally got it sorted! You’re welcome.

Lucy is absent from this episode for “research” purposes. Her official title is Research Coordinator.

Kelly began looking into this topic (with minimal research) due to our earlier episode on Love Languages. We have all of our Love Languages and a variety of other things about us in spread sheets… including, but not limited to, fall activities, twilight characters we share Myers-Briggs characteristics with, and scents we like. We’re normal.

Kelly discovered the great and powerful author and Sex Educator, Shan Boodram! Love her, worship her, follow her on all social media platforms! #blackcreators

In Shannon’s book, The Game of Desire, the first step on your sexual/dating journey is to know thyself. And this is mainly done…with a lot of personality quizzes. (Kelly and the rest of us love a personality quiz)

One of the quizzes included in this book was the Kinsey Scale, a method dating from 1948 which rates sexuality on a scale from homosexual to heterosexual. (Here is a quiz for it, despite the actual Kinsey institute not believing in a version of the quiz instead basing their score on past sexual partners). Shan Boody (she has many a name) suggests taking the quiz twice, once for your reality, once for your fantasy.

The Kinsey Scale 0 (Hetero) to 6 (Homo) & X we don’t understand you

Sissel only knows anything about this concept because of Mean Girls, and the line “Kinsey 6 Gay”.

Here are our Kinsey results:

Gina

Reality 2 – Predominenty Hetero, More than incidentally Homo

Fantasy 3 – Equally Both!

Maisie

Reality & Fantasy 3 – Equally Both!

She also doesn’t really understand how this test could be taken as fantasy vs reality? It requires a certain level of self knowledge to be able to take it, which makes it not necessarily helpful for those seeking answers.

(Sorry, weird break when Sissel did acrobatic moves in tights & a pencil skirt. You’re welcome listeners.)

Hannah

Reality 5 – Predominantly Homosexual,