A deep look at the underlying traits that make up our kinky selves.
Click the link below to take the test for yourself!
The Seven Perspectives
Embracing the emotions between kink participants
Pursuing vizualizations or creations that are unique to kink spaces
The Kink Perspectives Project was founded by a practicing psychometrician who serves as a local kink community leader and teacher. The purpose of the project is to offer a researched-based way to look at why people participate in kink activities. Instead of relying on the role-based approach that most inventories use to approach the question of identification in kink spaces, the KPP has taken a multi-step psychometric approach to kink participation and enjoyment. This page is tge educational results of that data generation process. We hope that through the resources available on this website, kink participants will develop a better understanding of their kinky selves alongside new ideas, communities, and interests.
Click the link near the top of the page to take the inventory yourself, or explore the seven perspectives directly using the links to each.
If you're sapiosexual, love numbers, or want to see how the scale operates behind-the-scenes, feel free to browse this section. In it, the author explains some of the math behind the how the scale operates. The basis of much of the work here is Samejima's Graded Response Model (GRM), a particular model used in cases of polytomous (with multiple possible answers) items. For more information on that model, head over to Google Scholar and check out Samejima's work, beginning in 1969. The Project also relies heavily on factor analysis techniques (EFA, CFA) and dimensionality analyses. For a complete technical report on the psychometrics behind the project, the successive development of the multiple versions of the KPI, and a plethora of graphs, charts, and tables, please look at Section Three of the published book.
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We strongly encourage the continued education of all members of the kink community. Here are a few links to sites that we highly recommend.
Click here for recommendations and book reviews of our favorite kink-friendly stories, available on Amazon or through your local bookstore!
On this page, you will find links to other instruments designed to measure kink, tools used during our kink classes, and forms and sheets to be used in your personal play or kink journey.