Female Subjectivity Scale (FSSI)
Women's sense of themselves as sexual beings across five dimensions
As a woman, how do you feel about your body and sexual pleasure? The FSSI measures female sexual subjectivity across five dimensions. About 5 minutes.
What Is the Female Sexual Subjectivity Inventory (FSSI)?
The FSSI measures how women experience themselves as sexual beings. Horne & Zimmer-Gembeck (2006) developed these 20 items to capture sexual subjectivity. It captures the concept of sexual subjectivity — the sense of entitlement to sexual pleasure and the capacity for sexual self-reflection.
Five Dimensions
1. Sexual Body-Esteem (4 items): Positive feelings about one's body as a sexual entity 2. Entitlement to Pleasure from Self (4 items): Belief in the right to experience self-pleasure 3. Entitlement to Pleasure from Partner (4 items): Belief in the right to experience pleasure with a partner 4. Self-Efficacy in Achieving Pleasure (4 items): Confidence in one's ability to achieve sexual pleasure 5. Sexual Self-Reflection (4 items): Tendency to think about and evaluate one's sexuality
Scoring
Each item is rated on a 5-point Likert scale (1=Strongly Disagree → 5=Strongly Agree). Each dimension score is calculated as the mean of its 4 items. Higher scores indicate greater sexual subjectivity.
Reference
Horne, S., & Zimmer-Gembeck, M. J. (2006). The Female Sexual Subjectivity Inventory: Development and psychometric validation. *Journal of Sex Research*, 43(3), 259–270.
Result Interpretation
Finish the 20 questions and you get your results straight away — no account, no sign-up, no waiting.
We calculate your total from your answers, then give you a plain-language explanation of what the numbers mean. Where a test has sub-scales, each dimension gets its own score. Whenever possible, we also show how your results compare to population norms.
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