What about sexual encounters with people who aren't men or women? What if the subject isn't a man or a woman either? What about asexuals? What about someone who has a strong sex drive and fantasizes all the time but hasn't had any sexual encounters yet -- or for other reasons has decided to avoid them?
Actually, "asexual" by itself simply means "not sexual". When you say "asexual reproduction", that means reproduction not involving gene-scramblement; i.e., parthenogenesis or budding. When you say "asexual person", that can mean a lot of different things, since "sexual" has a lot of meanings when pertaining to people, but in context of sexual orientation means "person who is not sexually attracted to people of any gender".
I still don't exactly see how you can call a scale incorrect. It's like calling a weighing scale incorrect because it doesn't include negative numbers or fractions.
Doesn't make the chart incorrect, just means I'm an X on the Kinsey scale (which represents all the edge cases, asexual, no interest in sex, etc.)
The scale's not interested in measuring those things, or it would include them. It's ok for it to just measure people who fit the gender binary - that's 95%+ of people anyway and is a reasonable population to want to know about.
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