Sex by Numbers

David Spiegelhalter

When it comes to our sex lives most of us like to keep a few secrets. Others maybe more. And for some it's hard to keep count...

Luckily David Spiegelhalter legendary statistician and 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? with who? and how has it changed?

Bringing numbers into the bedroom to provide 'eye-popping' (Financial Times) answers Spiegelhalter 'manages to make the figures side of sex stats seem as interesting as the sexual' (Sunday Times). Following 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. Now available in paperback.

Published in partnership with the Wellcome Collection.
WELLCOME COLLECTION is the free museum and library for the incurably curious. It explores the connections between medicine life and art in the past present and future. It is part of Wellcome a global charitable foundation that exists to improve health for everyone by helping great ideas thrive.

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