Review of 'Bonk' on 'Goodreads'
5 stars
Mary Roach did it again! It's a well researched, flawlessly written book on a touchy subject that's a must read!
Hardcover, 288 pages
English language
Published April 7, 2008 by W. W. Norton.
4 stars
(4 reviews)
Few things are as fundamental to human happiness as sex, and few writers are as entertaining about the subject as Mary Roach. Can a woman think herself to orgasm? Is your penis three inches longer than you think? Why doesn't Viagra help women - or, for that matter, pandas? Does orgasm boost fertility? Or cure hiccups? The study of sexual physiology - what happens, and why, and how to make it happen better - has been taking place behind closed doors for hundreds of years. In this fascinating and funny book, Mary Roach steps inside laboratories, brothels, pig farms, sex-toy R&D labs - even Alfred Kinsey's attic - to tell us everything we wanted to know about sex, and a lot we'd never even thought to ask.
Subjects
- Science: General Issues
- Science
- Science/Mathematics
- Human Sexuality
- Life Sciences - Human Anatomy & Physiology
- Sexuality
- Science / Biology
- Life Sciences - Biology - General
- Popular works
- Sex (Biology)