Currently society has a very unsatisfactory means of describing sexuality. For example "I'm a straight girl but she is fit" or "I'm bisexual but with a preference for men". It's all terribly qualitative. Here I will attempt to lay down a mathematical method for describing sexuality.
Consider a Cartesian plane, in which the x-axis represents the degree to which one is attracted to members of the opposite gender, and the y-axis the degree to which one is attracted to members of the same gender. Then we can represent ones sexuality as a the vector si+gj where s and g are constants representing the level of attraction to members of the opposite and same sex respectively, and i and j are the horizontal and vertical unit vectors. The angle this vector makes with the horizontal can be given by θ=arctan(g/s). Thus, rather than saying 'I'm bisexual' you can say 'I'm straight inclined at an angle θ to the horizontal'. The reader may decide for themselves whether it is homophobic to measure θ from the 'straight' axis.
The individual values of g and s can be determined experimentally by measuring levels of arousal to members of the two sexes.
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