Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and 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.

Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 04/01/2008
ISBN: 9780393064643
Pages: 319
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.80w x 1.20d

Review Citations: Library Journal Prepub Alert 12/01/2007 pg. 89
Kirkus Reviews 02/01/2008 pg. 137
Library Journal 03/01/2008 pg. 105
Publishers Weekly 02/25/2008 pg. 66
New York Times Book Review 03/30/2008 pg. 7
New York Times Book Review 04/06/2008 pg. 22
Entertainment Weekly 04/18/2008 pg. 68
Booklist 03/15/2008 pg. 13
Time 07/14/2008 pg. 67
Kirkus Best Books 12/15/2008 pg. 12
Booklist Editors Choice/Adult 01/01/2009 pg. 9
LJ Best Sci-Tech Books 03/01/2009 pg. 31
Entertainment Weekly 03/22/2013 pg. 67