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Sexual Orientation

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Sexual orientation is a person's pattern of physical and emotional attraction, ranging across categories from exclusively one sex to any sex to none.

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Kinsey's scale placed orientation on a continuum rather than a strict either-or, a framing later research has kept.

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Orientation and gender identity are independent categories; knowing one tells you nothing certain about the other.