A sparky scrutiny of doing ‘it’ by the numbers
Non-fiction: Sex by Numbers: What Statistics can tell us about Sexual Behaviour
By David Spiegelhalter
Profile Books, €17.50
For Franklin D Roosevelt, it was: “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.” John F Kennedy had: “Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.” Bill Clinton’s best remembered quotation, however, will always be the rather less inspiring: “I did not have sexual relations with that woman – Miss Lewinsky.”
Fortunately for Clinton, there was ...