Sex by Numbers
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Sex by Numbers

What Statistics Can Tell Us About Sexual Behaviour

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eBook - ePub

Sex by Numbers

What Statistics Can Tell Us About Sexual Behaviour

About this book

Whatever society we live in, and however open-minded we like to think we are, when it comes to our sex lives we all like to keep a few secrets. But this makes the jobs of sexologists -- professionals who study sexual behaviour -- pretty difficult.Luckily, David Spiegelhalter, Professor of Risk at Cambridge University, is here to unravel the web of exaggerations, misdirections and downright lies that surround sex in modern society. Drawing on the Natsal survey, the widest survey of sexual behaviour since the Kinsey Report, he answers crucial questions such as what are we all doing? How often? And how has it changed?Accompanying a major Wellcome exhibition on the same subject, Sex by Numbers is an informed and entertaining look at the most enduring of human obsessions, from one-night stands to the seven-year itch.WELLCOME COLLECTIONWellcome Collection is a free museum and library that aims to challenge how we think and feel about health. Inspired by the medical objects and curiosities collected by Henry Wellcome, it connects science, medicine, life and art. Wellcome Collection exhibitions, events and books explore a diverse range of subjects, including consciousness, forensic medicine, emotions, sexology, identity and death. Wellcome Collection is part of Wellcome, a global charitable foundation that exists to improve health for everyone by helping great ideas to thrive, funding over 14, 000 researchers and projects in more than 70 countries.wellcomecollection.org

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Table of contents

  1. Copyright Page
  2. Dedication
  3. Contents
  4. 1. Putting Sex into Numbers
  5. 2. Counting Sexual Activity
  6. 3. Spin Your Partner
  7. 4. Activities with the Opposite Sex
  8. 5. Activities between People of the Same Sex
  9. 6. By Your Own Hand
  10. 7. How It All Starts
  11. 8. Feelings about Sex
  12. 9. Together at Last: Becoming a Couple
  13. 10. Sex and Not Having Babies
  14. 11. Sex and Having Babies
  15. 12. Pleasures and Problems
  16. 13. Sex, Media and Technology
  17. 14. The Dark Side: Prostitution, the Pox and Having Sex against Your Will
  18. 15. A Boy or a Girl
  19. 16. Conclusions
  20. Appendix: Natsal Methods
  21. Notes
  22. List of Illustrations
  23. Acknowledgements
  24. Index