Sexual Attitudes and Lifestyles

Abstract

Here it is then: the sex survey which Mrs. Thatcher tried to ban and which spiced up the Sunday supplements earlier this year.What lies between its beguilingly plain covers?Firstly, a text which is readable, beauti- fully laid out, with excellent statistical tables and figures, and chunky, relevant, appendices.Secondly, a zeitgeist of British sexual attitudes and lifestyles for the nineties.Everybody who works in the sexual health arena should be aware of these findings.The former Prime Minister might be reassured to discover that, as a nation, we are strongly committed to heterosexual monogamy, condemning casual sex and homosexuality.There's not a Mars bar in sight as our sexual repertoire within hetero- sexual monogamy focuses on vaginal inter- course.