Abstract
Lesbianism and homosexuality, called abnormal sex interests by many Western scholars, affect more people in the world today—an estimated 2-4 percent of the world's total population—than any other sex-related morbid psychological condition. China has no statistics in this respect, but according to a national sex survey conducted on twenty thousand subjects by the Shanghai Sex Sociology Research Center in 1989-90, 0.54 percent of urban married persons and 2.31 percent of rural married persons had engaged in lesbian or homosexual acts at one time or another. In order to gather further information on the reasons behind lesbianism and homosexuality, so that society might gain a scientific understanding and take a rational approach toward them, the institute began a survey on lesbianism and homosexuality in six districts in 1991. Their work was beset with difficulties, however, and only 50 percent of the questionnaires were retrieved. In this article, the author discloses some of the encounters of a surveyor ...
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