I just got through discussing some things with a very confused friend former co-worker. And if you’re really that confused and convoluted then typically a test or an identity is not gonna help you out that much.
But they all do feel passe and basic in today’s world. I don’t think these scales and tests are entirely useless. They’re also not great at determining whether people might be pansexual, polysexual, or other sexualities. While EROS is more fluid than the Kinsey Scale, like many other types of sexuality quizzes, both require respondents to identify as either male or female, making them poorly equipped for handling non-binary and gender-neutral individuals. EROS divides sexuality into four quadrants and tells people what percentage gay, straight, bisexual, asexual they are. In 1980, sex researcher Michael Storms developed The Erotic Response and Orientation Scale (EROS). The Kinsey Scale can help answer the question “Am I gay?” but it isn’t exactly a sexuality quiz Like other animal behaviorists, he also believed one’s sexuality could change somewhat over a lifetime and was dependent on one’s social circumstances - an exclusively homosexual man, for instance, might exhibit bisexual behaviors in an anti-gay society. Kinsey believed a person’s psychosexual responses and/or overt experiences were the best “test” for determining someone’s sexuality.
