It does not make room for asexuality, even though Kinsey knew about asexual people. During the thousands of interviews that he conducted, Kinsey had come across people who didn’t fit onto his line—who, in his language, had “no socio-sexual contacts or reactions.”2 Faced with data that didn’t fit this theory, he didn’t revise his line to make it more multidimensional. Instead, Kinsey marked these people into a separate category called X and carried on. Heterosexual, homosexual, and bisexual dominated, while Group X was mostly forgotten. This matters, because language is a form of power. It
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