Bonk

Description:

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 a lot we'd never even thought to ask.

subjects: Science,  Sex (Biology),  Nonfiction,  Long Now Manual for Civilization,  Popular works,  Sex (Psychology),  Sexology,  Research,  Sexology, research,  Sexual Behavior,  Sex,  nyt:paperback-nonfiction=2009-05-10,  New York Times bestseller,  New York Times reviewed