Sexuality Test Kinsey Scale: Explore Your Attraction Spectrum

Use this sexuality test Kinsey scale quiz as a Kinsey-style self-reflection tool to explore where your current attraction pattern falls on the spectrum.

Answer based on your real pattern of attraction, not on what feels socially expected, politically safer, or easier to explain. Use same-gender and different-gender in relation to your own gender identity. This quiz is only for self-reflection, not diagnosis or identity assignment, and the historical Kinsey model cannot fully capture nonbinary experience, low-attraction experience, or every form of sexuality.

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1. When you notice immediate attraction to someone, which pattern feels most true for you?

That spark is almost entirely directed toward people of a different gender than my own.

It is mostly directed toward different-gender people, with occasional same-gender attraction.

I can feel that spark toward both same-gender and different-gender people in a fairly balanced way.

It is mostly or almost entirely directed toward people of the same gender as my own.

2. Looking back over your strongest crushes, what pattern shows up most often?

Nearly all of my strongest crushes have been on different-gender people.

My crushes have leaned clearly more different-gender than same-gender.

My strongest crushes have been meaningfully split across both same-gender and different-gender people.

My strongest crushes have leaned clearly more same-gender, or almost entirely same-gender.

3. In private fantasies or daydreams, which direction feels most typical for you?

They center almost entirely on different-gender attraction.

They lean more toward different-gender attraction than same-gender attraction.

They move between both directions without one clearly dominating.

They lean more toward same-gender attraction, or almost entirely toward it.

4. On dating apps or in social spaces, whose profile or presence tends to catch your eye first?

Almost always someone of a different gender than my own.

Usually a different-gender person, though not always exclusively.

Either can catch my eye at about the same rate.

Usually someone of the same gender as my own, if not almost exclusively.

5. When you imagine a future long-term partner, which option feels most natural right now?

A different-gender partner feels most natural to imagine.

I mainly picture a different-gender partner, even if that is not the only possibility.

A same-gender or different-gender partner feels equally plausible to imagine.

A same-gender partner feels most natural to imagine.

6. If you think about your real dating or flirtation history, what pattern fits best?

Nearly all of my real interest has gone toward different-gender people.

My real interest has leaned more toward different-gender people than same-gender people.

My real interest has been fairly mixed, or I can see both directions mattering for me.

My real interest has leaned more toward same-gender people, or almost entirely toward them.

7. When emotional closeness and physical attraction line up together, where do they usually point?

They both point mostly toward different-gender people.

They still point more toward different-gender people, even if not exclusively.

They can line up toward both same-gender and different-gender people.

They both point mostly toward same-gender people.

8. Which celebrity or fictional crush pattern sounds closest to you?

Almost all of those crushes are on different-gender people.

Most of them are on different-gender people, with some same-gender exceptions.

They are fairly mixed across same-gender and different-gender people.

Most of them are on same-gender people, if not nearly all of them.

9. If a close friend tried to describe your usual type, what would be most accurate?

They would say my attraction is clearly directed toward different-gender people.

They would say I mostly lean different-gender, with some exceptions.

They would probably say I can genuinely be attracted to both.

They would say my attraction clearly leans same-gender.

10. When chemistry surprises you, which direction does it more often come from?

Even when it surprises me, it is still almost always different-gender chemistry.

It more often comes from different-gender chemistry than same-gender chemistry.

It can surprise me in either direction.

It more often comes from same-gender chemistry than different-gender chemistry.

11. If social pressure and labels disappeared for a moment, which statement would still feel most honest?

I would still describe my attraction as almost entirely different-gender.

I would still say it is mostly different-gender, even if not exclusively.

I would still say both same-gender and different-gender attraction matter for me.

I would still say it is mostly or almost entirely same-gender.

12. When you imagine intimacy and romance together, which direction feels strongest?

Different-gender attraction feels strongest on both counts.

Different-gender attraction still feels stronger overall, though not exclusively.

Both directions feel possible in a meaningful way.

Same-gender attraction feels stronger overall, if not nearly exclusive.

13. Which statement best matches the way you currently understand your attraction pattern?

My attraction pattern feels overwhelmingly different-gender.

My pattern leans different-gender, though not always exclusively.

My pattern feels meaningfully mixed across same-gender and different-gender attraction.

My pattern leans strongly same-gender, or almost entirely same-gender.

14. Across different stages of life or settings, how stable has your attraction direction felt?

It has stayed consistently different-gender across settings and time.

It has stayed mostly different-gender, even if a few exceptions appeared.

It has repeatedly shown up in both directions rather than just one.

It has stayed mostly same-gender across settings and time, if not entirely.

15. Overall, where would you place your attraction pattern right now?

Almost entirely different-gender attraction.

Mostly different-gender attraction, with some same-gender attraction.

A substantial attraction to both same-gender and different-gender people.

Mostly or almost entirely same-gender attraction.