The Sell Assessment of Sexual Orientation: Background and Scoring

Abstract

Reviews how sexual orientations have been measured historically, and provides a review of the strengths and limitations of each measure. Measures of sexual orientation are categorized as: (1) dichotomous, (2) bipolar (such as the Unsey Scale), (3) multidimensional (such as the Mein Scale), and/or (4) orthogonal (such as the scale proposed by Shively and DeCecco). A new measure of sexual orientation, the Sell Assessment of Sexual Orientation, is proposed based upon this review. Finally, methods of scoring and summarizing the proposed measure are discussed.