The Spectator

Barometer | 20 August 2015

Plus: The EU's worst spending; unlikely hit events; rising and falling names

issue 22 August 2015

No sex, please

Several friends of the late Sir Edward Heath asserted that he could not be guilty of sexually assaulting children because he was asexual. How many adults do not experience sexual attraction?
— A 2004 study by Anthony F. Bogaert, of Brock University, Ontario, Canada, analysed responses to a British questionnaire ten years earlier.

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