Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex Export

@book{citeulike:2953868, abstract = {**The best-selling author of \_Stiff\_ turns her outrageous curiosity and infectious wit on the most alluring scientific subject of all: sex.** 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. 16 illustrations.}, author = {Roach, Mary}, citeulike-article-id = {2953868}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://www.amazon.ca/exec/obidos/redirect?tag=citeulike09-20&path=ASIN/0393064646}, edition = {1}, howpublished = {Hardcover}, keywords = {health, myths, orgasm, physiology, science, sex, sexual, viagra}, month = {April}, posted-at = {2008-08-01 17:03:01}, priority = {5}, publisher = {W. W. Norton}, title = {Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex}, url = {http://www.amazon.ca/exec/obidos/redirect?tag=citeulike09-20&path=ASIN/0393064646}, year = {2008} }

TY - BOOK ID - citeulike:2953868 L3 - citeulike-article-id:2953868 N2 - **The best-selling author of _Stiff_ turns her outrageous curiosity and infectious wit on the most alluring scientific subject of all: sex.** 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. 16 illustrations. TI - Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex PB - W. W. Norton KW - health KW - myths KW - orgasm KW - physiology KW - science KW - sex KW - sexual KW - viagra AU - Roach, Mary PY - 2008/April// UR - http://www.amazon.ca/exec/obidos/redirect?tag=citeulike09-20&path=ASIN/0393064646 ER -