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.
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