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The heterosexual-homosexual continuum, sometimes referred to as the sexual continuum, is a psychological and philosophical understanding of human sexuality that places sexual preferences on a continuum from heterosexuality to homosexuality. This concept stems from Alfred Kinsey's 1940s surveys of sexuality: significant numbers of Kinsey's subjects reported bisexuality of varying degrees, rather than the strict heterosexual/homosexual division that had been previously assumed. This work was expanded by Fritz Klein, who hypothesized that sexual orientation was a dynamic, multi-variable process, involving attraction, behavior, fantasies, emotional and social preferences, self-identification, and lifestyle.[1] This continuum was an important influence on the feminist and gay-rights movements of the 1970s and 1980s as academics and movement leaders tried to distinguish between one's sex—e.g. being male or female—and the social, cultural, and psychological aspects of gender and sexuality. According to the American Psychological Association:
This term, or similar variants of it, are used commonly in the field of sexual orientation studies. See the Kinsey scale. Today, many sexologists see scales like this and the Kinsey scale as simplistic. "They suggest that sexual orientation and sexual identity are more complex and varied."[3] [edit] Footnotes
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