may have been some difference of interpretation on this score, and a few may have taken into account their entire past life. The rating scale, with the number and percentage of persons placing themselves in each category, is as follows:

EXCLUSIVELY HETEROSEXUAL, WITH NO HOMOSEXUALITY PREDOMINANTLY HETEROSEXUAL, CNLY INCIDENTALLY

HOMOSEXUAL

PREDOMINANTLY HETEROSEXUAL, BUT MORE THAN IN-

CIDENTALLY HOMOSEXUAL

EQUALLY HETEROSEXUAL AND HOMOSEXUAL

FREDOMINANTLY HOMOSEXUAL, BUT MORE THAN INCI-

DENTALLY HETEROSEXUAL

FREDOMINANTLY HOMOSEXUAL, BUT INCIDENTALLY

HETEROSEXUAL

EXCLUSIVELY HOMOSEXUAL

NO. OF PERSONS

0

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4

2.5

6

4

2.5

8

5

35

22

100

64

157

100

TABLE 3. HOMOSEXUAL-HETEROSEXUAL SCALE

The relation between this self-evaluation, marital status, and extent of heterosexual relations, is of some interest: It can be seen that of this group 91% consider themselves to be more homosexual than heterosexual that is, place scale. Yet as many

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themselves more than halfway down the as 43 persons, or 27%, are either now married or were onc o married. (See Fig. 5) Along the same line, while 100 persons count themselves as exclusive homosexuals, as many as 98 reported some heterosexual relationships.* The so 98

must, and do, include a number of persons rated as exclusive homosexuals.

The most obvious explanation for this relatively high degree of marital history and heterosexual experience is, of course, that the heterosexual-homosexual balance changes over the years. Kinsey's concept of this balanco involves conscious psychological reactions and overt behavior; and

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