Sunday, 18 October 2009

The Sexuality Game

So me and my friend were discussing the Kinsey sexuality scale (y'know, the one that gives you a score from 0-6 based on how gay/straight you are). There's this online test now &, to be frank, I find it faintly ridiculous that a few questions can determine your entire sexuality. I have my own method:

I started this process a few years ago, when I realised that I was bisexual. Except, for a little while, the concept of bisexuality didn't seem to exist in my mind; gay and straight were the only options. Everyone's so quick to pigeonhole you, I think it becomes entrenched in our own psyches. Anyway, I created this "sexuality game" in an attempt to solve the problem.

You know when someone really gorgous catches your eye on the street or on the bus or something? You turn around, look them up and down and generally wish that you could elope to Paris that night? Yeah? Well, basically, whenever I'm out I try and measure whether I gawp at a higher number of women than guys or vice versa. After three years, I've not got closer to an actual answer on my sexuality though, admittedly. (Fortunately, bisexuality is very much a possiblity.) But at least it provides an excuse for shameless perving.

When I explained this to my friend, he labelled my game a 'sociopathic act of stalkery'. Reading this back, he might have a point. Apparently, people aren't variables to be measured: who knew?