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A review of over 60 studies published from 1994 to 2012, covering 26 different samples from Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Norway, the United Kingdom, and the United States that included sufficient data for participants to be designated as mostly heterosexual (Kinsey 1s) concluded that such individualsshowauniqueprofileofsexualandromanticcharacteristics that differentiate them as a distinctive sexual orientation (Savin-Williams & Vrangalova, in press). Mostly heterosexuals differed from two adjacent groups, exclusively heterosexuals and substantiallybisexuals, inreportingasmalldegreeofsame-sex sexual and/or romantic attraction, fantasies, and, occasionally, same-sex behavior. In addition, they constituted a substantial prevalence in the general population (the second most prevalent sexual orientation group, claimed by a mean of 7.6–9.5% women and 3.6–4.1% men), were relatively stable in their …