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Bonk

The Curious Coupling of Sciences and Sex

By Mary Roach

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| Hardcover | 9780393064643

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The study of sexual physiology—what happens, and why, and how to make it happen better—has been a paying career or a diverting sideline for scientists as far-ranging as Leonardo da Vinci and James Watson. The research has taken place behind the closed doors of laboratories, brothels, MRI centers, piContinue

The study of sexual physiology—what happens, and why, and how to make it happen better—has been a paying career or a diverting sideline for scientists as far-ranging as Leonardo da Vinci and James Watson. The research has taken place behind the closed doors of laboratories, brothels, MRI centers, pig farms, sex-toy R&D labs, and Alfred Kinsey's attic.

Mary Roach, "the funniest science writer in the country" (Burkhard Bilger of The New Yorker), devoted the past two years to stepping behind those doors. Can a person think herself to orgasm? Can a dead man get an erection? Is vaginal orgasm a myth? Why doesn't Viagra help women—or, for that matter, pandas? In Bonk, Roach shows us how and why sexual arousal and orgasm, two of the most complex, delightful, and amazing scientific phenomena on earth, can be so hard to achieve and what science is doing to slowly make the bedroom a more satisfying place. 16 illustrations.

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  • Sexual Advances

    In her previous books, “Stiff” and a follow-up, “Spook,” Mary Roach set out to make creepy topics (cadavers, the afterlife) fun. In “Bonk,” she turns to sex, covering such territory as dried animal excreta used as vaginal “drying agents”; a rat’s tai ... (read full critics)

    nytimes published on Sat, 18 Sep 2010

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  • Once again Mary Roach has penned a humorous, informative book. This time she takes on sex, and she does her usual great job of providing interesting scientific facts in a manner that keeps you laughing out loud.

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  • Bonking with pleasure

    I've written about this book on the Italian version. Please refer to it.

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    Antonio Gallo said on Sep 20, 2008 | Add your feedback

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