Small Sexual Orientation Grid
The Klein Sexual Orientation Grid (KSOG, “Klein's Grid of Sexual Orientation”, or “Klein Grid” for short) is a questionnaire developed by Fritz Klein to record and describe a person's sexual orientation . It is a further development of the Kinsey scale presented in 1985 .
Emergence
The American therapist Fritz Klein wrote mainly on the subject of bisexuality . The one-dimensional bipolar Kinsey scale was insufficiently informative for him to depict the variety of possible manifestations of sexual orientation . Kinsey represented the sum of psychological responses and real behavior in a single value. When Klein surveyed people, he noticed many of them were confused about their sexual orientation. This did not result from what they thought or felt about themselves, but from the definition they used for themselves and for others. Many thought that they only had two options: heterosexuality and homosexuality . Only a small percentage saw the possibility of calling themselves bisexual. But this three-way division is also a limitation. And the seven-part Kinsey scale always left questions unanswered. Klein took up various suggestions from Kinsey and constructed the Klein Sexual Orientation Grid with his team . They conducted a study and published both in 1985 in the Journal of Homosexuality and in his book. The article also contains a non-representative study with 384 interviewed people who were obtained through an erotic contact magazine. An analysis showed that a person's self-identification was the most accurate way of predicting the answer in the grid. The KSOG is also included in the second edition of Klein's book The Bisexual Option , published in 1993, which is why the year of the first edition is sometimes incorrectly given, but only gives the first thoughts on it.
KSOG
Klein viewed sexual orientation as a multivariable process that was dynamic over a lifetime. In the KSOG, seven bipolar variables are recorded in three dimensions in 21 fields. A distinction is made between the past, what happened in the last year and the ideal of what one would wish for in the future. As with Kinsey, seven numbers are used as values, but from 1 to 7, as opposed to 0 to 6 by Kinsey. Asexuality is not discussed. The completely filled out grid results in a very individual picture, which is hardly ever exactly repeated even in larger groups (e.g. lecture participants). A total value is not provided, but you can calculate an average value for a rough overview.
| variables | past | present | Ideal | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sexual (self) experience | ||||
| A. | Sexual attraction | |||
| B. | Sexual behavior | |||
| C. | Sexual fantasies | |||
| Aspects of sexual orientation in the narrower sense | ||||
| D. | Emotional preference | |||
| E. | Social preference | |||
| F. | Lifestyle (hetero / homo) | |||
| Self identification | ||||
| G | Self identification | |||
| value | Description for variables A – E | Description for variable F – G |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | just the opposite sex | just straight |
| 2 | mostly the opposite sex | mostly heterosexual |
| 3 | more the opposite sex | more heterosexual |
| 4th | both sexes the same | straight / gay-lesbian the same |
| 5 | more one's own gender | more gay and lesbian |
| 6th | mostly your own gender | mostly gay and lesbian |
| 7th | only your own gender | only gay and lesbian |
- Past: your life until 12 months ago.
- Present: the last 12 months.
- Ideal: your prediction for the future. What do you think you would ultimately like?
| translation | original | Definition / description / question | |
|---|---|---|---|
| A. | Sexual attraction | Sexual Attraction | Who are you sexually attracted to? |
| B. | Sexual behavior | Sexual behavior | What gender did you have sex with? |
| C. | Sexual fantasies | Sexual fantasies | What gender are your sexual fantasies about? (When masturbating, daydreams borrowed from real life or as pure imagination.) |
| D. | Emotional preference | Emotional Preference | Emotional influence, if not limited, is the physical act of love. Do you love and only like members of the same sex, only of the opposite sex or members of both sexes? |
| E. | Social preference | Social Preference | Social preference is closely related to, but often different from, emotional preference. Which gender do you prefer to spend your free time with, and which gender are you most comfortable with? |
| F. | lifestyle | Heterosexual / homosexual lifestyle | What is the sexual identity of the people in whose company you move? |
| G | Self identification | Self-identification | How do you rate yourself? |
In some versions that can be found in the literature, questions F and G are reversed.
Extensions
An expansion by Bobbi Keppel and Alan Hamilton from 1994 also raises the eighth variable political identity with the same values as F and G. Behind this is that some people have a different relationship to the rest of society than their personal sexual identity describe. As an example, they cite a woman who has a heterosexual sexual identity but a lesbian political identity.
Dana G. Finnegan and Emily B. McNally use a dash (-) to indicate where it is appropriate to have the subject express asexual behavior. (Behavior, feelings, experience, fantasy)
literature
- Fritz Klein, Barry Sepekoff, Timothy J. Wolf: Sexual orientation: A multi-variant dynamic process , Journal of Homosexuality, 11 (1/2), pp. 35–49
- Fritz Klein, Timothy J. Wolf: Two lives to lead: Bisexuality in men and women , Harrington Press, New York 1985 (also published as: Bisexualities: Theory and Research , Haworth Press, 1985)
- Fritz Klein: The Bisexual Option. Second Edition , Haworth Press, 1993, ISBN 1-56024-380-5 (Hard); Harrington Park Press, ISBN 1-56023-033-9 (Soft) (With KSOG)
- (Fred Klein: The Bisexual Option: A Concept of One Hundred Percent Intimacy , Priam Books / Arbor House, New York 1978, ISBN 0-87795-179-9 (Hard); Arbor House, New York 1979, ISBN 0-87795- 244-2 (Soft) Without KSOG!)
- JD Weinrich, PJ Snyder, RC Pillard, I. Grant, DL Jacobson, SR Robinson, JA McCutchan: A factor analysis of the Klein Sexual Orientation Grid in two disparate samples , Archives of Sexual Behavior, No. 22, 1993, p. 157 -168
- Erwin J. Haeberle: Bisexualities - History and Dimensions of a Modern Scientific Problem , published in:
EJ Haeberle and R. Gindorf: Bisexualities - Ideology and Practice of Sexual Contact with Both Sexes , Gustav Fischer Verlag, Stuttgart 1994, pp. 1–39
Web links
- Web-KSOG to fill out (English) - An average is then calculated and displayed in decimal numbers from 0 to 6.
- Web-KSOG to fill out (English) - An average is calculated and displayed as a percentage.
- Questionnaire with the Klein Sexual Orientation Grid and the Sell Assessment of Sexual Orientation (PDF; 104 kB), as used by Yarhouse and Jones (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ The Klein Sexual Orientation Grid , American Institute Of Bisexuality
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↑ Bobbi Keppel, Alan Hamilton: Sexual and Affectional Orientation and Identity Scales ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Bisexual Resource Center, Boston 1998; Version: December 16, 2000; PDF from November 18, 2007 at marriedgay.org or Bobbi Keppel, Alan Hamilton: Using the Klein Scale to Teach about Sexual Orientation , East Coast Bisexual Network, Bisexual Resource Center July 1994; at the Queer Resources Directory
- ^ Sana Loue: Assessing race, ethnicity and gender in health , Springer, 2006, ISBN 0-387-32462-3 , p. 146
- ↑ Dana G. Finnegan, Emily B. McNally: Counseling lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender substance abusers: dual identities , Routledge, 2002, ISBN 1-56023-925-5 , p. 43
