Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex
The best-selling author of 'Stiff' turns her outrageous curiosity and insight 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...
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The best-selling author of 'Stiff' turns her outrageous curiosity and insight 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
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Format: Kindle Edition
ASIN: B0011UJLC6
Publisher: Norton
Pages no: 321
Edition language: English
I don't read a whole lot of non-fiction. What little I do read is usually in the celebrity biography genre. But for my Eclectic Reader Challenge, I needed to read something qualifying as Micro history. I didn't even know what that was, but the internet was very helpful in clearing up my confusion. G...
Well... this the first time I've read anything like this, and I must say, it fascinated me. I always thought I should have been a scientist... although I don't know if I would have been able to bring myself to finger a monkey for science!
Disclaimer: This review is highly male oriented this book has everything sex in every form... every cringe worthy, OMG, terrified, and enlightening aspect of such a wonderful experience (uuuuu....sually....) (fertility statue) from what makes people tick sexually (hormones, position...
Good humored overview of the science of sex.
I enjoyed this book well enough and Mary Roach has a great sense of humor; some of her dry observations had me in stitches and fits of laugher. However, some of her ethics (asking to grope a man's genitals while he is drugged up from surgery and doesn't speak English (she asked his doctor and said t...
9 years ago
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