5/15/2023 0 Comments Mary roach bonk reviewThere was a lot of content dedicated to sex researchers (like Kinsey and Masters) and their contributions to sexology and science. The good: I really enjoyed the sexology history. It was surprisingly enjoyable and I learned quite a bit. As someone who wants to learn a lot about sexology in a scientific and critical way, I was worried that this book would have too much pop-science. In ‘Bonk’, Roach shows us how and why sexual arousal and orgasm, two of the most complex, delightful, and amazing scientific phenomena on earth, can be so hard to achieve and what science is doing to slowly make the bedroom a more satisfying place. Can a person think herself to orgasm? Can a dead man get an erection? Is vaginal orgasm a myth? Why doesn’t Viagra help women or, for that matter, pandas? The research has taken place behind the closed doors of laboratories, brothels, MRI centers, pig farms, sex-toy R&D labs, and Alfred Kinsey’s attic.Mary Roach, “the funniest science writer in the country” (Burkhard Bilger of ‘The New Yorker’), devoted the past two years to stepping behind those doors. The study of sexual physiology – what happens, and why, and how to make it happen better – has been a paying career or a diverting sideline for scientists as far-ranging as Leonardo da Vinci and James Watson.
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