Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex | Mary Roach | Thoroughly entertaining and educational

Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex | Mary Roach | BONK

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	Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex Mary Roach W. W. Norton, 2008 - 288 pages average customer review:based on 67 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Thoroughly entertaining and educational

Hands down this is one of the best books I have read in some time. I found myself laughing out loud with almost every page while staying riveted to the fascinating account of the study of sex throughout the last few hundred years.

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This book is full of interesting tidbits of information and the author can be funny at times.
My favorite chapters list of this book:

2. Dating the Penis-Camera: Can a woman find happiness with a machine?
3. The Princess and Her Pea: The woman who moved her clitoris, and other ruminations on intercourse orgasms
5. What's Going On in There?: The diverting world of coital imaging
7. The Testicle Pushers: If two are good, would three be better?
8. Re-Member Me: Transplants, implants and other penises of last resort
14. Monkey Do: The secret sway of hormones
15. "Persons Studied in Pairs:" The lab that uncovered great sex
Another book you will love is Sex and the Perfect Lover: Tao, Tantra, and the Kama Sutra

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Who would have thought

The book gets more interesting as you read. It's full with interesting facts. The only thing that is distracting are the footnotes.

Rats in pants?

Bonk the Curious Coupling of Science and Sex is a thorough history of the study of sexual behaviors and activity. Mary Roach, who previously written about cadavers and scientific studies of a possible afterlife, tackles the subject without a blush. She even managed to talk her husband into participating in study in which couples are imaged as they have intercourse. Bonk embraces the practical such as sex studies for spinal cord injury patients allowing them to remain sexual(many who get little or no information from their physicians) as well as the absurd, the study of polyester's effect on sexual activity (using rats wearing polyester pants). Throughout it all, Roach treats her subject with aplomb.

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Lots of ick, but where's the fun?

A book by Mary Roach on sex, of all topics, ought to be wince-inducing and hilarious. The winces are there all right, with tales of penile surgery, farmers stimulating their animals for better yields, and various devices to measure and explore human sexuality. But whether from embarrassment or fatigue, the laughs just aren't there. Maybe it's the sheer ick factor of disinterested scientists playing mad doctor on unsuspecting indigent patients, or the utter weirdness of the Kinsey group "experimenting" on themselves and holding ejaculation contests. Or of the scary futuristic glare of the "Dr. Evil" of sex research -- William Masters (of Masters and Johnson fame). Perhaps it's just the groan factor of page after page of doctors probing, palpating, peering at and pontificating on the most sensitive areas of the body. Whatever it is, the book has nothing of the wacky morbid enjoyment of "Stiff," Roach's first book.

There's plenty to learn about human and animal sexuality. There's lots of info about the mistaken notion s that we humans have had over the years about "what goes where" and why. The ancients thought male and female contributed "seed" tom start human life -- an egalitarian concept not so far from the truth. But Leonardo, for all his enthusiasm for drawing accurate renditions of the human body from cadavers, turned away prudishly when it came to rendering the human reproductive system, preferring to use the erroneous work of others as his source. Then there's the reason, evidently molded by eons of rather messy competition between randy guys, that the male human organ is shaped the way it is.

The goodly amount of new and unusual info in "Bonk" needs to be made palatable by a certain amount of raucous, anarchic fun, but it's here that Roach is unable to deliver. A good read, even if you have to force your way through it.

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