Bonk : the curious coupling of science and sex / Mary Roach.
- Roach, Mary.
- Date:
- [2008], ©2008
- Books
About this work
Description
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.
Publication/Creation
New York : W.W. Norton, [2008], ©2008.
Physical description
319 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Contributors
Edition
1st ed.
Bibliographic information
Includes bibliographical references (p. [307]-319).
Contents
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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Where to find it
Location Status Medical CollectionWQ205 2008R56bOpen shelves
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ISBN
- 9780393064643
- 0393064646