ABSTRACT
A major survey of British sexual attitudes and lifestyle (Johnson et al., 1994) has provided the most comprehensive evaluation of sexual behaviour in the British public to date. It was motivated largely by the emergence in the 1980s of the lethal epidemic of sexually transmitted infection, HIV, and the lack of baseline measures of sexual behaviour. The survey involved 18 876 British men and women in a random population sample aged 16-59. The following statistics were among many that emerged.
