第一個開發出詳細評估個人的既往性生活史方法的性科學家是瑪格納斯•赫希菲爾德(Magnus Hirschfeld)，他於1908年設計出詳盡的“心理-生物學調查問卷(psychobiological questionnaire)”，他所有的病人必須填答這個問卷。三十年後，美國生物學家阿爾弗雷德 C.金西(Alfred C. Kinsey)開發出了著名的性調查面談法和面談填報密碼系統；無論面談的內容多麼冗長，這種方法和密碼系統能夠讓金西在一張紙上記錄下個人的全部性生活經歷。其後，許多性治療師開發了自己的調查問卷，這些問卷常常組合了赫希菲爾德的問卷內容和金西新擬定的調查內容。威廉 E.哈特曼(William E. Hartman)和瑪裏琳 A.菲森(Marilyn A. Fithian)在他們的著作《性功能障礙的治療：生物-社會-心理學方法》("Treatment of Sexual Dysfunction: A Bio-Psycho-Social Approach",Long Beach, CA, pp. 29-65, 1972)中所發表的調查問卷就是一個很好例子。十年以後，金西最親密的同事沃德爾 B. 珀莫偌(Wardell B. Pomeroy)在《採集個人既往性生活史——面談法與密碼標注》(W. B. Pomeroy, C.C. Flax, C.C. Wheeler: "Taking a Sex History - Interviewing and Coding", New York 1982)一書中發表了金西面談法詳解，其中附有如何操作的用法說明。

The first sexologist to develop a detailed instrument for assessing a person's sexual history was the Berlin physician Magnus Hirschfeld, who, in 1908, designed a lengthy "psychobiological questionnaire" that all his patients had to fill out. Thirty years later, the American biologist Alfred C. Kinsey developed his famous interview and coding system, enabling him to record all of a person's sexual experiences, no matter how extensive, on a single sheet of paper. Since then, many sex therapists have developed their own questionnaires, often combining some of Hirschfeld's and Kinsey's questions with new ones of their own. A very good example was published by the California sex therapists William E. Hartman and Marilyn A. Fithian in their book "Treatment of Sexual Dysfunction: A Bio-Psycho-Social Approach", Long Beach, CA, pp. 29-65, 1972. Ten years later, Wardell B. Pomeroy, Kinsey's closest associate, published a detailed account of the Kinsey-interview with instructions on how to conduct it (W. B. Pomeroy, C.C. Flax, C.C. Wheeler: "Taking a Sex History - Interviewing and Coding", New York 1982).