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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, 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.
- Format: Hardcover
- Author: Roach, Mary
- ISBN: 9780393064643
- Condition: Used
- Dimensions: 8.30 x 1.20
- Number Of Pages: 320
- Publication Year: 2008
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A Strangely Interesting Read
Beth A. - 7 years agoBonk is the untold tale of sex research in science. Mary Roach delves into the history of sex research, from the Dickinson in the 1890s all the way up to the present, interviewing researchers working today. The book itself is funny and engaging, exploring what the known-and-unknown about how sex works, why sex works, and what is being done in science today to make it keep working. She explores the stigma of sex research and why it took so long to understand the basics.
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