I remember quite a long time ago that someone I know posted a link to a quiz about sexuality in the JEB forums. At the time at which I took it, I was still at the stage when I wanted not only for everyone to think that I was straight, but also to be straight, and so it struck me that it might be quite cool to take it again now that I’ve relaxed a little bit

Also, I wanted a distraction because I have mislaid a French death certificate. I cannot for the life of me think what I have done with it If you saw my desk right now, you would actually struggle to see me, because I am being swallowed up by growing mountains of paper. I only have five files on the desk, which is by no means excessive, but my client has sent through printed information which is equivalent to several packets of printer paper and it’s just sort of swamping me. Somewhere in the middle of all this, I swear that yesterday I came across a French death certificate and an Italian death certificate. Now, I know they were there because I looked at them quite particularly to make sure they were death certificates, and because there were a couple of details I was initially unsure of, I contemplated whether it would be unethical to scan them in an send a copy to Babel for him to help me out. I didn’t reference them up and put them on file, however, because at that point in time I wasn’t auditing death benefits. And now that I am auditing death benefits, they have disappeared so completely that I would be tempted to believe they never existed, were it not for the fact that that would mean I had been hallucinating about foreign death certificates… Having been through all the paper on my desk once this morning, I am starting to get a little stressed about it, so the idea is that if I spend ten minutes doing something else I will calm down and then hopefully remember what I’ve done with them. So, erm, how straight am I?!

This was the first quiz, the one which I took before:

Klein Sexual Orientation Grid

I scored an average of 3.62

Meaning

This result can also be related to the Kinsey Scale:


0 = exclusively heterosexual
1 = predominantly heterosexual, incidentally homosexual
2 = predominantly heterosexual, but more
than incidentally homosexual
3 = equally heterosexual and homosexual
4 = predominantly homosexual, but more than incidentally
heterosexual
5 = predominantly homosexual, incidentally heterosexual
6 = exclusively homosexual

According the website:

Summary

The idea of this excercise is to understand exactly how dynamic a person’s sexual orientation can be, as well as how fluid it can be over a person’s lifespan. While a person’s number of actual homo/heterosexual encounters may be easy to categorize, their actual orientation may be completely different. Simple labels like “homosexual”, “heterosexual”, and “bisexual” need not be the only three options available to us.

You can take the quiz yourself here

There’s also another quiz available to take on the website:

The Multidimensional Scale of Sexuality

According to my answers, it is likely that I identify as
Homosexual with some heterosexuality.

Complete set of results

Homosexual with some heterosexuality:		3
Heterosexual with some homosexuality:		2
Homosexual:		2
Past homosexual, currently heterosexual:		2
Sequential bisexual:		2
Asexual:		0
Concurrent bisexual:		0
Heterosexual:		0
Past heterosexual, currently homosexual:		0

According to the website:

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.

You can take the quiz yourself
here. It’s fairly straightforward, you just have to read through a list of (rather similar but subtly different) statements, and tick any of those which apply to you. I have to say that I did it twice, because the first time I forgot to copy the code for my blog, and I think both times I got slightly different scores, but on the whole, I’d say it’s fairly accurate

Ah, there’s nothing like pointless quizzes to de-stress! And I’ve just had a brainwave about where my death certificates might be…

**Pause whilst rummages in paper**

…yep, I’ve got them :) Only one slight problem, now that I look at them more closely; the French certificate is in the wrong name. It’s obviously going to be one of those days

Tags: gay, quiz, stress

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