Flex Test Answers

Here are your answers to some select questions on the Flex Test (from the nearly 2,000 who have taken the test so far). Please let me know if there are other particular questions you would like to see the results from.
On a scale of 1 to 5, 5 represents strong agreement.

Sexual Practices

Here are your answers to a few select questions about sexual attitudes and experiences. On a scale of 1 to 5, 5 represents strong agreement with the statement.

Spectrum of Sexual Orientation

Here's how you have answered when asked to place your sexual orientation on a scale between 1 and 9, with 1 being completely straight and 9 being completely gay or lesbian:

Sexual Traits

The following five graphs illustrate the frequency of the different sexual traits that appear in the first 1,000 Flex Test results, according to the self-described orientation of the test taker. These sexual features are fairly evenly distributed among gay, straight, and bisexual groups.

The First 1,000: Flex Scores

Flexuality Scores among the first 1,000 who have taken the test have spread out into a nice bell curve.

When flexuality scores are compared to sexual orientation, we see that those who identify themselves as bisexual are more likely to have higher flexuality scores.

This graphs breaks it down according to the sexual type generated by the Flexuality Test. The polyamorous and ambisexual types score higher, reflecting more open attitudes, environments, and experiences.

The First 1,000 Results

Here are some summary results from the first 1,000 who have taken the Flexuality Test. The first graph shows the number of women and men who identified themselves at the start of the test as bisexual, heterosexual, or homosexual. Keep in mind that word of the test has spread mostly through bisexual and gender issues listserves and forums, so it is unlikely to be representative of the general public.

These are the sexual types generated by the Flex Test among those who identified themselves as bisexual, heterosexual, or homosexual. Those who think of themselves as straight are more likely to be heterosexual or ambisexual. Those who think of themselves as gay may be queer or polyamorous.
Sexual type varied quite a bit by gender. As predicted by the literature, women were more polyamorous, while men were more ambisexual. Men were more likely to be gay, while very few women scored as lesbian.

Ethnicity and Sexual Type

Here's a graph of sexual types according to ethnicity, focusing for now on white vs. other groups combined. There aren't enough results to draw broad conclusions, but there is a trend for non-whites to be less likely to score as gay/queer, which is consistent with the scientific literature.

Sexual Types by Gender

Here's a graph showing the distribution of sexual profiles according to the gender of the test taker. Currently more men than women have taken the test. The trend seems to be that there are more heteroflexible women than men, and more gay men than lesbians, taking the test.

Sexual Traits

Here are 5 charts showing results from the first 500 or so who have taken the test. You can see the number of individuals who initially identified as bisexual, heterosexual, or homosexual and whose profiles generated additional features: macho, versatile, metamorphic, restrained, or transitioning traits.





It's not surprising that so few score as transitioning, because it is very difficult to detect change in a test that is taken in one sitting.

Also check out my post in Flexuality that contains a graph of scores regarding the other major sexual types: heteroflexible, ambisexual, polyamorous, queer, etc.

Flexuality Score

Some of you have written to ask me what the Flex Score means. It simply measures the extent to which your test answers indicate open-minded attitudes, experiences, and influences minus constraining attitudes and circumstances. It is a rough measure of your flexibility in sex and love.

The following is a graph of the number of people (y-axis) and their scores (along the x-axis), which seems to be falling into a nice bell curve. You can compare your flexibility to others who have taken the test.

Restrained Attitudes

Here are answers to a couple of questions that can point to restrained features in one's sexual identity.

Attitudes about Sexuality

Are you born gay? Are bisexuals just gay? Is everyone bisexual? Here are what more than 300 takers of the Flex Test think about some of our cultural assumptions about sexuality and the prevalence of bisexual desires and behaviors:

Versatility

I just posted a description of the versatile sexual type on my main blog, and I thought it might be interesting to look at some of the questions on the Flex Test that score towards the versatile profile, and how the first 200 participants answered those questions.

This is Good to Know!

Summary Results: Demographics

A snapshot of the first 100 test takers:

Summary Results: Sexual Experiences

More answers to select questions from the first 100 to take the test:

Bisexual pornography seems to have something for almost everyone:

Summary Results: the First 100

Here are some select answers from the first 100 men and women who took the test: