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Loading... Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sexby Mary Roach
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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. Another great book from Mary Roach. Not as good as "Stiff," but still funny and interesting subject matter. cafepithecus | Jul 8, 2009 |   tamaranth | Jun 28, 2009 | This is a good book. More than anything it's funny, although the chapter about penile implants and sticking things into your uretha wern't as funny as they were cringe-inducing. I read this on the train, and I imagine my facial expressions must have made it look like I was reading something that I'd rather not read. But it was chock-ful of amazing facts, like dead people can have orgasms, or that one study shows that 40% of women can ejacuate during orgasm. Information like this can always come in useful when you're defending a thesis or trying to impress college interviewers, etc. Don't you think? (  )rventura | Jun 7, 2009 | This is a very funny book about sex and the research over the ages to get to the bottom(sorry about that) of the female orgasm and what happens during sexual intercourse. We already have The Mile High Club, now we also have The Twenty-one Inch High Club ... you'll have to read the book to find out ... (  )pinkozcat | Jun 4, 2009 | A hysterically funny and wildly amusing look at the science of sex. Highly, highly recommended. Laugh out loud funny, but also incredibly educational. ( )KatharineClifton | May 29, 2009 | 0.037 seconds to build listing  no reviews | add a review
Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0393064646, Hardcover)The best-selling author of Stiff turns her outrageous curiosity and infectious wit on the most alluring scientific subject of all: sex.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. (retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:58:19 -0400) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
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