Manhattan fashion house Calvin Klein trademarked the term "technosexual" in what year?
Calvin Klein Calvin Klein Inc. is an American fashion house founded by the fashion designer Calvin Klein and childhood friend Barry K. Schwartz. The company is headquartered in Midtown Manhattan, New York City and is currently owned by PVH.
Benjamin scale The Sex Orientation Scale (SOS) was Harry Benjamin's attempt to classify and understand various forms and subtypes of transvestism and transsexualism in biological males, published in 1966. It was a seven-point scale (with three types of transvestism, three types of transsexualism, and one category for typical males); it was analogous to the Kinsey Scale as it relates to sexual orientation, which also had seven categories. Much like Kinsey's understanding of sexual orientation, Benjamin understood the nature of gender identity and gender expression not as a discrete scale, but as a spectrum, a continuum with many variations. However the Benjamin scale does not reflect a modern understanding of gender identity and is not useful as a contemporary diagnostic tool, especially due to its conflation of gender identity with sexual orientation.