Bonk
by Mary Roach · first published 2008
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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 Alfre
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There was a bit on those experiments in Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex by Mary Roach. She has a good way of writing that's both funny and informative.
on “The Couple Who Shagged in an MRI Machine for Science” ↗Mary Roach. Her books are quite fun to read. The titles are good too. Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex
on “Wounds taking weeks to heal on skin disappear in a week inside the mouth (2013)” ↗