'Are women's orgasms more intense than men's?' 'When and how did you lose your virginity?' 'Do you believe that there exists one woman who is your destiny?'. In January 1928, long before Masters & Johnson began their clinical surveys, the surrealists initiated their own remarkable 'researches into sexuality.' These took the form of round-table interrogations, twelve in all, the last being held in 1932. Until recently, transcripts of only two had been published in France. The research spanned the most critical period for surrealism, a time of bitter political disputes, echoed in the intensity of these meetings and in the range of participants, including Andre Breton, Paul Eluard, Yves Tanguy, Benjamin Peret and Pierre Naville....The surrealists' objectives had nothing in common with the adaptive pseudo-science of modern sexology. Though there's plenty of humour in the transcripts—not all of it intentional, the participants were engaging in the most rigorous self-exploration, trying scrupulously to record every aspect of sexual love. Despite their cataloguing of positions, timings and quantities, this is no celebration of libertinism....Their views were hardly immune to the prejudices of their time, and surrealism's detractors will find plenty of ammunition here.