Sexual encounters are initiated in the mind and it is the mind which determines whether they will be pleasureable or not. Amande Lowe's book Thinking Sexy explores subconscious and deep-seated attitudes and defences that can prevent a woman from fully enjoying her sex life to the full. This is not a prescriptive book but one which will help the reader to open her mind to more opportunities to enliven a flagging sex life or make her intimate moments more exciting. When Amanda Lowe set out to write Thinking Sexy, she conducted what she dubbed 'The Lowe Sex Survey' by setting out a stall in her local street market in Hull Town Square. She invited passers-by to talk to her as she wanted to find out what normal people thought about sex. The results of this survey are included in the book.