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Bonk

Mary Roach

How has science studied sex in the lab, and what does that research say about how bodies and feelings fit together?

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At a glance

Author
Mary Roach

Why read it

  • You will learn how human sexual response was measured, and what early researchers had to put up with
  • You will weigh the author's hunch that feelings matter more than mechanics in sex
  • You will see how fear and embarrassment held back research on a basic part of human life

Who it is for

  • A curious reader who likes odd corners of science
  • Someone who wants frank facts about the body without a lecture
  • A reader who wonders how science studies private behavior

Contents

  1. Bonk
  2. foreplay
  3. The Sausage, the Porcupine, and the Agreeable Mrs. G.
  4. Dating the Penis-Camera
  5. SEX MACHINES: Book Talk, Slide Show & Machine Play Party!
  6. The Princess and Her Pea
  7. The Upsuck Chronicles
  8. What’s Going On in There?
  9. The Taiwanese Fix and the Penile Pricking Ring
  10. The Testicle Pushers
  11. Re-Member Me
  12. The Lady’s Boner
  13. The Prescription-Strength Vibrator
  14. The Immaculate Orgasm
  15. Mind over Vagina
  16. What Would Allah Say?
  17. Monkey Do
  18. “Persons Studied in Pairs”

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