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Product Identifiers

PublisherNorton & Company, Incorporated, w. w.

ISBN-101324036036

ISBN-139781324036036

eBay Product ID (ePID)13058360673

Product Key Features

Book TitleBonk : the Curious Coupling of Science and Sex

Number of Pages336 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2022

TopicLife Sciences / Human Anatomy & Physiology, Life Sciences / Biology, Human Sexuality (See Also Social Science / Human Sexuality)

IllustratorYes

GenreScience, Psychology

AuthorMary Roach

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.7 in

Item Weight13.2 Oz

Item Length8.2 in

Item Width5.5 in

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Intended AudienceTrade

ReviewsRoll over, Kinsey. Mary Roach has done it again.... Bonk proves that full-bodied research can be riveting., Roach ferrets out basic truths and endless absurd details amid mountains of dry science on her chosen subject. . . . It's a wonderful read, sprinkled with facts you can quote to amaze your friends., [An] account that is at once revealing--alarmingly so--and very very funny. She studs (forgive me) her journey with a multitude of knee-crossing bits of fact that will enliven bedtime conversation everywhere.

SynopsisIn Bonk , the best-selling author of Stiff turns her outrageous curiosity and insight on the most alluring scientific subject of all: sex. Can a person think herself to orgasm? Why doesn't Viagra help women--or, for that matter, pandas? Can a dead man get an erection? Is vaginal orgasm a myth? Mary 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 make the bedroom a more satisfying place., A New York Times Bestseller "Rich in dexterous innuendo, laugh-out-loud humor and illuminating fact. It's compulsively readable." --Los Angeles Times Book 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.