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The Klein Sexual Orientation Grid (KSOG) developed by Fritz Klein attempts to measure sexual orientation by expanding upon the earlier Kinsey scale. Fritz Klein founded the American Institute of Bisexuality in 1998 which is continuing his work by sponsoring bisexual-inclusive sex research, educating the general public on sexuality, and promoting the bisexual community.
Klein first described the KSOG in his 1978 book The Bisexual Option.[1][2][3][4] In response to the criticism of the Kinsey scale only measuring two dimensions of sexual orientation, Klein developed a multidimensional grid for describing sexual orientation. Unlike the Kinsey scale, the Klein grid investigates sexual orientation in the past, the present and in the idealized future with respect to seven factors each, for a total of twenty-one values. The KSOG uses values of 1–7, rather than the 0–6 scale of the Kinsey scale, to describe a continuum from exclusively opposite-sex to exclusively same-sex attraction.[5]
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- ^ The Bad Subjects Production Team (1997-11-01). Bad Subjects: Political Education for Everyday Life. NYU Press. pp. 108–. ISBN 9780814757932. Retrieved 29 August 2012.
- ^ Bancroft, John (2009). Human Sexuality And It Problems. Elsevier Health Sciences. pp. 262–. ISBN 9780443051616. Retrieved 29 August 2012.
- ^ Klein, Fritz; Barry Sepekoff; Timothy J. Wolf (1985). "Sexual Orientation". Journal of Homosexuality. 11 (1–2): 35–49. doi:10.1300/J082v11n01_04. ISSN 0091-8369. PMID 4056393.
- ^ Coleman, Eli (1987). "Assessment of Sexual Orientation". Journal of Homosexuality. 14 (1–2): 9–24. doi:10.1300/J082v14n01_02. ISSN 0091-8369. PMID 3655356.