2024/25 Sex Survey launched

Building on last year’s successful revival of the perennial favourite, we have decided to come early and launch our sex survey in term one.

Naysayers may argue that it is too early, and that freshers will perhaps fill in the survey too soon, which might be true, but Welcome Week is over. Gone is the tolerance for their loitering in the most inconvenient stairwells around our campus, and the deference we treated them in the first week of term. Instead, they will now have to face the same predicament as everyone else. Of course, freshers could wait for a while as they get it on with their flat and course mates and face the inevitable breakups that first term brings as they, like many others before them, try to make long distance work.

We’ve tried to streamline the questions, make it quicker, easier, more fun, and better for our respondents. We’ve cut down the number of textboxes, reduced the music questions to genres (The Weeknd is everyone’s favourite sex artist, we get it), and added a few more questions to actually improve our understanding of the sex lives of Imperial students, especially when Generation Z appear to be having less sex than their preceding generations. 

Coincidentally, we’ve timed our survey to have the results released around Valentine’s Day, as it originally occurred during its conception, under the tenure of Editor-in-Chief Kadhim Shubber. Shubber, who now works as UK editor at the FT launched it as a bit of “light-hearted” fun, which swelled in the 2010s to become much larger than it is today. There have been times where we have had to stop the sex survey, with a four year draught most recently between 2020 and 2024, but it’s very much a Felix tradition at this point, and in an era where traditions across the College are dying out, not least the tradition of having a University experience, it’s important to carry on those traditions that at least get people to pick up their copy on a Friday morning, and at most, provide the people who go to this miserable institution with some laughter and a topic to talk about.