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In the interview, it was assumed that participants had tried different kinds of sexual acts, until explicitly negated. The wording was also not rigidly fixed, but could be adapted to e.g. Depending on the subject's answers there could be a different order and number of questions. This interview included around 300-500 questions. Subject sexual orientation was assessed in a structured personal interview. Predominantly homosexual/only incidentally heterosexual Predominantly homosexual but more than incidentally heterosexual Predominantly heterosexual but more than incidentally homosexual Predominantly heterosexual/incidentally homosexual

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The measurement for sexual behaviour was relative to the subject's full number of sexual encounters, rather than an absolute number of sexual encounters with the same sex. Equal intervals were assumed between the single categories, except for X. Kinsey used 7 categories (0-6) to classify sexual orientation as a continuum plus an additional category labeled X (no socio-sexual contacts or reactions). It assesses both overt sexual behaviour as well as sexual fantasies. The scale was used to classify and quantify homosexual and heterosexual behaviour across the American population. The two books are often referred to as 'the Kinsey Reports'. The Kinsey scale (also Kinsey homosexual-heterosexual scale) was first presented by Alfred Kinsey in his two influential books Sexual Behavior in the Human Male (1948) and Sexual Behaviour in the Human Female (1953).