“Just because they have same-sex attraction does not mean they’re gay,” said Cason.Īlfred Kinsey, the namesake of the Kinsey Institute at Indiana University, and his colleagues created a scale in 1948 based on interviews with men and women about their sexual behavior. There are different degrees of heterosexuality and homosexuality. If I’m attracted to a person of the same sex occasionally am I gay? Here are three common questions a psychologist hears about sexuality: 1.
“They’re trying to match their feelings with their outside reality,” he said. “In our world we want boy, girl and straight.'Ĭason said that many of his patients want some sort of confirmation of their sexuality. “Sexuality is so much more complicated then we want to make it,” Cason said. He explained that society wants to put clear labels on people but human beings don’t really work that way.
