Sex By Numbers: The Statistics Of Sexual Behaviour

The latest Natsal survey of British sexual behaviour suggests that we are becoming more experimental in our sex lives, but there is less of it going on. But given sex (mainly) goes on behind closed doors, collecting reliable statistics of sexual behaviour presents a considerable challenge.

David Spiegelhalter, Professor of the Public Understanding of Risk at Cambridge University will show how to obtain and use the best possible data to find out more about our sex lives, based on his forthcoming book, Sex by Numbers, which accompanies the major Wellcome Collection exhibition The Institute of Sexology.