One in five is against monogamy, according to The Observer's Sex Uncovered survey |

THis is a trailer article One in five is against monogamy, according to The Observer's Sex Uncovered survey it trails for a longer section, and it's got a catchy (do I hear 'sexy'?) come-on: "One Briton in five does not believe that monogamy is desirable, while three out of 10 do not think it is natural, according to The Observer's Sex Uncovered survey,"
I'm interested because I think that we need to realise how deep the PR job we have to do for Christian values in our post-whatever culture. And we have to 'sell' them in terms that make sense to our host culture. That is if we think that some Christian values, such as these, are actually good for society and individuals in it. I would say that at present we have a major difficulty even being heard on such matters past the expectation that we are going to simply repeat the 'just say no' mantra that 'everyone' thinks we have tattooed to us when we're baptised. So where do we start?

Anyway have a look at the articles: there are some interesting surprises in there: most men are happy with the size of their willy, for example (who'd have thought it looking at the emails that clog our spam filters?). Also 82% of respondants denied having ever being unfaithful to their partner and of those only 10% had done so regularly (I make that something just under 2% of the whole sample). Furthermore 79% do believe monogamy to be desirable (that's the glass is half-full interpretation).Interestingly, too, the rating of the importance of sex in a relationship varied: "Compared with those who are married, those who are single are twice as likely to view sex as the most important factor" Which puts an interesting perspective on the result that there was nearly a 50/50 split over the issue of whether respondents considered that it would be possible to maintain a healthy marriage without sex.