Bonk

Bonk

Get ready for a science lesson as strange as it is stimulating! Mary Roach, the bestselling author of Stiff and Spook and “the funniest science writer in the country” (Burkhard Bilger, The New Yorker) goes from the laboratory to the bedroom and back in Bonk, a smart, saucy look at the science of sex.

From Leonardo da Vinci to Alfred Kinsey, scientists have long been both fascinated and baffled by the human sexual response. Despite being among the most universal—and delightful—scientific phenomena in the world, sexual arousal and orgasm have proven as difficult to analyze as they sometimes are to achieve. In accessible, laugh-out-loud funny prose, Roach examines the extraordinary lengths researchers have gone to while uncovering the secrets of sex.

Can women think themselves to orgasm? Can dead men get erections? Vaginal orgasm: fact or fiction? Why are women—and, believe it or not, pandas—immune to Viagra? Bonk boldly goes where no science book has gone before—including brothels, pig farms and sex-toy R&D labs—to answer these questions and more.

Bonk’s not just a four-letter word, it’s the most revealing look yet at science’s quest to make the bedroom a better place!

Softcover: 288 pages

Publisher: W.W. Norton & Co. Inc. ( April 01, 2008 )

Item #: 73-4413

ISBN: 9781607510000

Product Dimensions: 5.5 x 8.25 x 0.72 inches

Product Weight: 11.0 ounces