I believe the scale is correct. However, I believe that most people are either completely gay or completely straight. I believe that bisexuality is less common than both heterosexuality and homosexuality. So his scale is right, but I think he completely overestimated the proportion of bisexual people.
I think a lot of people would point to today's trend of bicuriousity in adolescence as proof that he was right, but I think all adolescents are just naturally bicurious and that bicuriousity in adolescence is not bisexuality unless it continues after adolescence
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What you think and what things are may not be meshing.
With 47 years of meeting lots of people and hearing 'confessions', bisexuality is more predominate than society lets on. When you get people to start really talking, away from social pressure and peer pressures, they start admitting things that often don't mesh with society's views.
Plenty of gay men have had interest in a (one or two) women. Albeit a slight interest. A lot of straight men have had interest in one or two men. Interpersonal relationships with different individuals can lead one do consider doing things one 'normally' wouldn't consider.
Bisexuals are not tolerated by either the straight or LGBT communities - they are marginalized and often have to pretend to be either straight or gay in order to fit in or to make the whole explaining of how they feel more palatable.
There is pressures on either side to force a bisexual person to pick one gender and be happy. when this wall breaks down, we will find more bisexuals will 'come out' and more predominately straight and predominately gay individuals will confess to having the occasional opposite of their identity attraction.
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I agree that bisexuals are more common than most people think, but I don't think they're a majority
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Most people I've met aren't on the extreme ends. They're close, but not really quite there. And if I really bothered to count I would probably find that I know about an equal amount of bisexual, straight, and gay people. Although that's probably just because of the groups of people I tend to be around.
I don't see the importance of it though. I don't think who's loving what gender to what extent really matters, the issue is when people think it's their business who loves who and when the government thinks they need to be involved in such matters.
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Ultimately, you can call your self a Kettle. It doesn't change anything.
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