Top or Bottom Quiz

People who want to understand their intimate role preferences can use the Top or Bottom Quiz to organize experiences that may feel fluid, situational, or difficult to name. Alongside role orientation, this top or bottom test considers communication and flexibility, so the result can show how someone approaches leading, receiving, negotiating boundaries, and adapting with a partner.

What This Assessment Explores

The questionnaire explores consensual intimate role preferences without treating “top” or “bottom” as complete identities. Items cover leading, receiving, partner-led dynamics, adapting to context, stating limits, pausing, safer-sex discussion, and feedback.

A quiz about whether you are a top or bottom provides one part of the profile: communication and adaptability are scored separately. Read as a bottom test, this questionnaire can show a receiving lean without implying passivity or fixed behavior.

The result presents three dimensions:

• Communication & Boundaries Ease (0-20) shows comfort discussing desires, consent, and limits: Developing 0-8; Comfortable 9-14; Very comfortable 15-20.
• Top-Bottom Orientation (0-40) shows leading, receiving, or balance: Bottom-leaning 0-16; Versatile/Balanced 17-23; Top-leaning 24-40.
• Versatility (Switch Comfort) (0-30) shows ease switching roles: Prefer a Consistent Role 0-10; Sometimes Flexible 11-20; Highly Versatile 21-30.

Methodology and Scientific Basis

The sample items use four options-Strongly disagree, Disagree, Not sure, and Agree-to show how closely a preference or situation fits in a self-report format. Items address boundary communication, role direction, receiving or initiating, and switching. The scoring keeps role lean, communication ease, and flexibility as separate dimensions.

Within this bottom quiz, a receiving-lean result is a descriptive response pattern rather than a verdict about identity or behavior; interpret it as structured self-reflection, while mood, relationship context, or honesty can influence self-report.

The closest conceptual reference for role orientation is Moskowitz and Garcia (2019), whose study of same-sex male relationships distinguishes top, bottom, and versatile roles. It offers a conceptual comparison, not population norms or validation for this questionnaire. Consent communication relates to the Sexual Consent Scale-Revised, and Gil-Llario and colleagues provide a relevant comparison for sexual assertiveness. Those published constructs clarify related ideas for interpreting the profile, but they do not supply its score interpretation.