This text provides a feminist overview of the development of both the mainstream and the feminist variant of the survey as a means of investigating sexual attitude and behaviour. It examines the origins and development of the sex survey and focuses on the sex survey as a research means for a number of reasons: firstly, sex surveys have been an important means of influencing popular opinion about sexual norms and conventions. Secondly, this approach is of great importance in ideas about science and generalisability and validity. Thirdly, changes and developments in the form and status of the...