Saturday, August 2, 2008

Trying to learn a Couple of Things About Myself Through Some Online Quizzes

so...
I was bored (read: procrastinating) on my Saturday job when I decided I was going to let a couple of personality quizzes tell me about my sexuality. For the record, at this time in my life I am old enough to know about my strengths and flaws, weaknesses and how I would like to spend the rest of my life. Things happen and I must adapt but that does not mean I do not have a concrete understanding on my life's trajectory. I say all of that to say it is my level of denial that will determine how I execute my life and not how I know I would like it to be.

Fine.

So, without giving up too much information about myself, I will say that the first quizzes I took were simple and probably made up by people with no background in sexuality research. What prompted me to begin this quest is beyond me. It is funny how many strokes of geniuses I have when I am actually supposed to be focusing on what is already on the table in front of me. I began to google 'sexuality quizzes'; I came out as a Straight Female (that's funny, hilarious, actually). I am like 'holler', that was easy. I took three different ones, with the same result and as a creature of intelligence it is not hard to answer simple questions to garner my desired result. They would say things like you are straight but if you were not you would still be normal. I am thinking to myself, wow, do people with real questions about their sexuality consult internet quizzes to ask those challenging questions? No, that should not be, ever.

In an attempt to delve deeper into this faux discovery I begin to google 'lesbian quizzes'. One said I was straight, the other said I was a lesbian. These quizzes are very narrow-minded and really do not provide the median area within which a lot of the population exist. By this time I know this is horse shit because I am just manipulating my answers because the minute scope of such quizzes are too small to even attempt to successfully identify the fluidity of a person's sexuality without the stigma of deviance and promiscuity often paired with it on both extremes.

I stumble across an effective survey that encompasses one's perception of their sexuality in the future as well as assessing their past and future (It is from the UK, go figure). Finally, something that will give me the answer I already know. A supplementary True/False survey was a bit more extensive but asked very time-specific questions about sexuality allowing the taker to actually analyze their real emotions as opposed to thinking about how the answer may directly effect the outcome after they press the submit button. AND at no point do you have to enter your gender as a means for analysis.

Was that vague enough? Here are my results:

The Multidimensional Scale of Sexuality

According to my answers, it is likely that I identify as
Sequential bisexual.

Complete set of results

Sequential bisexual: 4
Concurrent bisexual: 2
Heterosexual with some homosexuality: 2
Homosexual: 1
Asexual: 0
Heterosexual: 0
Homosexual with some heterosexuality: 0
Past heterosexual, currently homosexual: 0
Past homosexual, currently heterosexual: 0


Information

The Multidimensional Scale of Sexuality was devised by Larry Kurdek, B. Berkey and T. Perelman-Hall. It is an extension of the Klein Sexual Orientation Grid, recognising that sexual identities can change over time, people can identify with more than one sexual identity, and that asexuality is a valid sexual identity. The Multidimensional Scale of Sexuality was published in the "Journal of Homosexuality" in 1990.

Take the quiz

Basically it says I go between the two, not at the same time, but periodically, kind of like my mood swings. If you know me, are you surprised?
ha.

1 comment:

selfreliance said...

i'd like some more information on concurrent sexuality because, according to recent studies, it is becoming quite common.

overall, i have to say that this last quiz was rather informative and i appreciate you posting this for the greater public to view. my own results were pretty accurate!