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Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 612.6
EAN: 9780393064643
Edition: 1
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
Studio: W. W. Norton
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Editorial Review:
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.
Customer Reviews
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Rating: - An Interesting Read
Bonk is about all of the past research that has been conducted on sexual intercourse from the late 1800s to the present. It is interesting to see how science, as a collective, seem to shun the topic at first then embrace it once the pharmaceuticals realized they could turn a profit on products like Viagra. This book is full of interesting tidbits of information and the author can be funny at times. The book does tend to bog down in places, but it is still interesting enough to want to keep reading.
Rating: - Amusing
I couldn't get into Roach's two previous books, but this one was excellent. She explores the fringes of the intersection between science and sex. The book includes a chapter on a Taiwanese doctor specializing in penile implants, as well a chapter on research with sex toys. The whole time, Roach maintains humor that never descends into snarkiness. Reading some of the descriptions of the experiments she conducts alone are laugh out loud funny (especially the device that turns her into a masturbatory layabout). ... Read More
Rating:  - Just as funny as 'Stiff'
"Bonk" is just as funny as Roach's first book, "Stiff." In many ways, it's even more engaging, perhaps because the characters the author runs into aren't all dead...
Rating: - Shopkeep, how much for that vaginal photoplethysmograph in the window?
"Not everyone gets their (masturbation study) funding from research grants. Some masturbation professionals get their funding from the sales of Vibrating Port-A-Pussies and Mr. Fred Jelly Dongs." - Mary Roach in BONK
"To get inside a lubricated vagina, a penis needs to be hard enough to push against the opening with one to two pounds of force. That is approximately the amount of force required to open a swinging kitchen door." - Mary Roach in BONK
Mary Roach is the author of Stiff: The ... Read More
Rating: - Another Winner
I've read her other two books as well. I'll read anything she writes.
She gets more witty as her career progresses! I liked this book very much. Writing-wise, I think it's her best. Subject-wise, you'll learn things you'll never learn anywhere else!!
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