The heterosexuality or homosexuality of many individuals is not an all-or-none proposition.
Interpretation
People's sexual orientation exists on a spectrum rather than as a strict binary choice.
Alfred Kinsey's quote highlights the complexity and fluidity of human sexuality, suggesting that individuals may not fit neatly into categories of heterosexual or homosexual. Instead, people's sexual orientations can encompass a wide range of experiences and identities, which challenge the traditional binary perception of sexuality.
In practice
In a discussion about sexual diversity at a pride event.
The very general occurrence of the homosexual in ancient Greece, and its wide occurrence today in some cultures in which such activity is not taboo suggests that the capacity of an individual to respond erotically to any sort of stimulus, whether it is provided by another person of the same or opposite sex, is basic in the species.
If biologists so often forget the most universal of all biologic principles [variation], it is not surprising that men and women in general expect their fellows to think and behave according to the pattern that may fit the law-maker, or the imaginary ideals for which the legislation was fashioned, but which are ill-shaped for all real individuals who try to live under them.
The range of variation in the female far exceeds the range of variation in the male.
The only unnatural sex act is that which you cannot perform.
Few males achieve any real freedom in their sexual relations even with their wives. Few males realise how badly inhibited they are on these matters.
If all persons with any trace of homosexual history, or those who were predominantly homosexual, were eliminated from the population today, there is no reason for believing that the incidence of the homosexual in the next generation would be materially reduced. The homosexual has been a significant part of human sexual activity since the dawn of history, primarily because it is an expression of capacities that are basic in the human animal.
I'm always wondering if he'll return. Sometimes I pray that he doesn't. And sometimes I hope he will. I wish on falling stars and eyelashes. Absence isn't solid the way death is. It's fluid, like language. And it hurts so much...so, so much.
I have soaked this league up for everything it's worth. I've had fun. Made some great relationships. I don't regret anything. Don't regret being in Kansas City. It's all been very good to me. So why would I take that approach? There will be no pity party thrown here.
A liberated woman is one who has sex before marriage and a job after.
Friends are generally of the same sex, for when men and women agree, it is only in the conclusions; their reasons are always different.
Is there something about the gay experience, being gay and the gay experience, that pushes us even more than other people toward competition?
it's good to know who hates you and it is good to be hated by the right people
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