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Sexual orientation
Part of sexology
Common classifications
Asexuality Bisexuality Heterosexuality Homosexuality
Other classifications
Autosexuality Kinsey scale Klein Sexual Orientation Grid Fluid sexuality Storms sexuality axis Monosexuality Pansexuality Paraphilia Polysexuality
Related articles
Affectional orientation Biology and sexual orientation Demographics of sexual orientation Homosexual orientation Lesbianism Male homosexuality Non-human animal sexuality Situational sexual behavior
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The Storms Sexuality Axis is a sexuality scale developed by Michael Storms, a psychologist at the University of Kansas. Storms had been studying sexuality and erotic fantasies and he felt as if there were conceptual problems with the Kinsey Scale. He found that bisexuals engaged in as much heterosexual fantasizing as heterosexuals and as much homosexual fantasizing as their lesbian and gay counterparts. He ascertained from this that bisexuality seemed to somehow incorporate total heterosexuality and total homosexuality in a way not indicated by the Kinsey Scale. Storms also wanted to distinguish between bisexuality and asexuality. In 1980, he proposed a new sexuality scale using an x-y axis. The Sexuality Axis has been criticised for implying that asexuality is a 'negative' option, and completely separate from other sexualities.

See alsoEdit

• Kinsey scale
• Bisexuality
• Klein Sexual Orientation Grid

External linksEdit

• Measuring Sexual Identity