English towns subject of covert sex survey

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English towns subject of covert sex survey

People living in Worcester and Middlesbrough in 1949 unwittingly took part in Britain’s first sex survey, according to a documentary.

A mass-observation project was carried out by British researchers a year after the Kinsey Report appeared in the US.

Instead of the questionnaires used in other places, researchers secretly watched public sexual behaviour, a BBC Four programme reveals on Wednesday.

The results were considered so radical they had to be hidden until now.
http://www.goodnewsblog.com/2005/10/06/odd-2-english-town-subject-of-covert-sex-survey