His famous Kinsey scale, which identifies people's levels of same- or opposite-sex attraction with a number from zero to six (zero being exclusively straight, six being exclusively gay), has been a favorite cultural metric for measuring sexual orientation since it was created in 1948.īut even though asking someone where they fall on the Kinsey scale is now a common dating website opener, the Kinsey scale is far from an all-inclusive system. When reality TV dumpling Honey Boo Boo Child declared that 'everybody's a little bit gay' three years ago, she was unknowingly taking a page out of sexologist Alfred Kinsey's book.
