Bonk : the curious coupling of science and sex / Mary Roach.
Roach shows how and why sexual arousal and orgasm can be so hard to achieve and what science is doing to make the bedroom a more satisfying place.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780393334791
- ISBN: 0393334791
- Physical Description: 319 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : W.W. Norton, [2008]
- Copyright: ©2008
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-319). |
Formatted Contents Note: | The sausage, the porcupine and the agreeable Mrs. G : highlights from the pioneers of human sexual response -- Dating the penis-camera : can a woman find happiness with a machine? -- The princess and her pea : the woman who moved her clitoris, and other ruminations on intercourse orgasms -- The upsuck chronicles : does orgasm boost fertility, and what do pigs know about it? -- What's going on in there? : the diverting world of coital imaging -- The Taiwanese fix and the penile pricking ring : creative approaches to impotence -- The testicle pushers : if two are good, would three be better? -- Re-member me : transplants, implants, and other penises of last resort -- The lady's boner : is the clitoris a tiny penis? -- The prescription-strength vibrator : masturbating for health -- The immaculate orgasm : who needs genitals? -- Mind over vagina : women are complicated -- What would Allah say? : the strange, brave career of Ahmed Shafik -- Monkey do : the secret sway of hormones : "Persons studies in pairs" : the lab that uncovered great sex. |
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Subject: | Sexual Behavior. Sex (Biology) |
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