Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex

Roach, Mary

ISBN 10: 0393064646 / ISBN 13: 9780393064643

Edité par W.W. Norton, New York, 2008

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8vo, 319 pp.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex
• Éditeur: W.W. Norton, New York
• Date de parution: 2008
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0393064646
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780393064643
• Reliure: hardcover
• Édition: 1st.
• État de l'article: Fine copy in fine dust jacket
• État de la jaquette: Jaquette
• Catalogues du vendeur:
  • Science & Engineering

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Synopsis

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. 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. 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? 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.

À propos de l?auteur

Mary Roach is the author of seven best-selling works of nonfiction, including Grunt, Stiff, and, most recently, Fuzz. Her writing has appeared in National Geographic and the New York Times Magazine, among other publications. She lives in California.