This test will show you where you are on the Sexual Orientation Continuum, and it will also calculate your Sexual Orientation Range, an estimate of how much flexibility you have in expressing your sexual orientation. Robert Epstein, one of America's most distinguished research psychologists (follow on Twitter at The test has been empirically validated with a sample of more than 600,000 people in 219 countries and territories.Īlthough many people believe that everyone is either 'straight' (heterosexual) or 'gay' (homosexual), sexual orientation actually exists on a continuum.

You are about to take the Epstein Sexual Orientation Inventory (ESOI), a test of sexual orientation designed by Dr.