Sexual orientation self-exploration

The past 12 months. Explore romantic attraction, sexual attraction and self-understanding separately. Identity is not inferred from speech or clothing.

This original self-check draws on research concepts; it is not a standardized test or diagnostic tool. Its questions, weights and minimum-answer rules are editorial choices without clinical validation. You may decline or choose not applicable, and interpretation depends on your circumstances and responses. Same gender means people you experience as sharing your gender; other genders means genders you experience as different from yours. You need not enter a gender or fit a binary; choose not applicable if these distinctions do not fit. Attraction, its direction, romance and identity need not align; asexual, aromantic, bisexual and questioning experiences are included.

Not applicable and declined answers are excluded from scores. Declining the experience question lets you finish without any inference about use.