Bonk by Mary Roach
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Title: Bonk
Author: Mary Roach
Publisher: Norton 2009
Genre: Nonfiction - Science
Pages: 321
Rating: 5/5 stars
Reading Challenges: Mount TBR
In Bonk, the best-selling author of Stiff turns her outrageous curiosity and insight on the most alluring scientific subject of all: sex. Can a person think herself to orgasm? Why doesn’t Viagra help women-or, for that matter, pandas? Can a dead man get an erection? Is vaginal orgasm a myth? Mary 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 make the bedroom a more satisfying place.
Our book club collection for this month. I actually read this about 6 years ago, but I couldn’t remember the specifics of the studies highlighted. It was a nice easy reread for a busy time of the year. I fell back into Roach’s hilarious style full of fun asides and irreverant questions. The first few chapters feel a little slow, but the book quickly speeds up. I flew through the last 100 pages or so. Definitely an interesting read.
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