The heterosexuality or homosexuality of many individuals is not an all-or-none proposition.
Interpretation
People's sexual orientation exists on a spectrum rather than as a strict binary choice.
Alfred Kinsey's quote highlights the complexity and fluidity of human sexuality, suggesting that individuals may not fit neatly into categories of heterosexual or homosexual. Instead, people's sexual orientations can encompass a wide range of experiences and identities, which challenge the traditional binary perception of sexuality.
In practice
In a discussion about sexual diversity at a pride event.
The very general occurrence of the homosexual in ancient Greece, and its wide occurrence today in some cultures in which such activity is not taboo suggests that the capacity of an individual to respond erotically to any sort of stimulus, whether it is provided by another person of the same or opposite sex, is basic in the species.
If biologists so often forget the most universal of all biologic principles [variation], it is not surprising that men and women in general expect their fellows to think and behave according to the pattern that may fit the law-maker, or the imaginary ideals for which the legislation was fashioned, but which are ill-shaped for all real individuals who try to live under them.
The range of variation in the female far exceeds the range of variation in the male.
The only unnatural sex act is that which you cannot perform.
Few males achieve any real freedom in their sexual relations even with their wives. Few males realise how badly inhibited they are on these matters.
If all persons with any trace of homosexual history, or those who were predominantly homosexual, were eliminated from the population today, there is no reason for believing that the incidence of the homosexual in the next generation would be materially reduced. The homosexual has been a significant part of human sexual activity since the dawn of history, primarily because it is an expression of capacities that are basic in the human animal.
...available people are the ones who are dangerous, because they confront us with the possibility of real intimacy.
Before marriage, a girl has to make love to a man to hold him. After marriage, she has to hold him to make love to him.
Why can't women get along? Because we're afraid. We're afraid to be vulnerable. We're afraid to be soft. We're afraid to be hurt. But most of all, we're afraid of our power. So we become controlling and aggressive and vicious.
The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults.
For every romantic possiblity, no matter how robust, there exists at least one equal and opposite sentence, phrase, or word capable of extinguishing it.
You have to see and smell and feel the circumstances of people to really understand them.
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