Bonk: The Curious Coupling Of Sex And Science - Couverture souple

Roach, Mary

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1847672361 ISBN 13 : 9781847672360

Editeur : Canongate Books, 2009

Synopsis

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 more we'd never even thought to ask.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Mary Roach is also the author of Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers and Six Feet Over: Adventures in the Afterlife. Her writing has appeared in the Guardian, Salon, Wired, GQ, Vogue and the New York Times Magazine. She lives in Oakland, California.

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

'When Mary Roach is seized by a subject, there is no stopping her: she is full-on, hands-on, and her lab coat is unbuttoned.'
The Times

The study of sexual physiology - what happens, and why, and how to make it happen better - has been taking place behind closed doors for many hundreds of years. In this fascinating and funny book Mary Roach steps inside laboratories, brothels, pig farms, sex toy labs - even into Alfred Kinsey's attic - to tell us everything we wanted to know about sex, and a lot we'd never even thought to ask.

'In this terrifically witty, hugely engaging study of the way we love, Mary Roach does meet some real oddballs, and on almost every page she tells you something to make you gasp aloud or snort with laughter.'
Daily Telegraph

'Roach puts her quick wit to good service in this entertaining romp through sex research. Her unshockability is contagious, and ultimately reassuring.'
Independent

'The pithiest, wittiest writer on the subject since Woody Allen.'
Saga

Cover illustration: Delphine Lebourgeois

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Canongate Books
• Date d'édition: 2009
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1847672361
• ISBN 13: 9781847672360
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 320
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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