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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 612.6
EAN: 9780393064643
ISBN: 0393064646
Label: W. W. Norton
Manufacturer: W. W. Norton
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 288
Publication Date: April 07, 2008
Publisher: W. W. Norton
Sales Rank: 3328
Studio: W. W. Norton
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Product Description:
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.
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Rating: - Interesting, humorous, and well-written
Ms. Roach provides an entertaining look at the science of sex. It appears to be quite complete and up-to-date. As it is science though, portions of the book are not 110% engaging. All and all it was well worth a read.
Rating:  - won't improve your sex life...or perhaps it will
You think you know that much about sex is weird and you've heard it all before until you read this book. You learn some, the footnotes, too, are educational. The author is ever-present; this is written much from a personal perspective. That's, of course, intentional and refreshing up to a point. One more flaw: she talks about many gadgets, diagrams or pictures would've been helpful.
Rating: - Rats in pants?
Bonk the Curious Coupling of Science and Sex is a thorough history of the study of sexual behaviors and activity.Mary Roach, who previously written about cadavers and scientific studies of a possible afterlife, tackles the subject without a blush.She even managed to talk her husband into participating in study in which couples are imaged as they have intercourse.Bonkembraces the practical such as sex studies for spinal cord injury patientsallowing them to remain sexual(many who get little ... Read More
Rating: - Lots of ick, but where's the fun?
A book by Mary Roach on sex, of all topics, ought to be wince-inducing and hilarious. The winces are there all right, with tales of penile surgery, farmers stimulating their animals for better yields, and various devices to measure and explore human sexuality. But whether from embarrassment or fatigue, the laughs just aren't there. Maybe it's the sheer ick factor of disinterested scientists playing mad doctor on unsuspecting indigent patients, or the utter weirdness of the Kinsey group "experimenting" ... Read More
Rating:  - Thoroughly entertaining and educational
Hands down this is one of the best books I have read in some time. I found myself laughing out loud with almost every page while staying riveted to the fascinating account of the study of sex throughout the last few hundred years.
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