I’m helping a friend out with his online bookshop today which means I’ve spent several hours cataloguing books and wishing I had time to read them all.
I’m pleased to say I’ve encountered a number of great books about sex but the one I’m dying to get my hands on is Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Sex & Science by Mary Roach.
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This is a book that offers you a huge number of weird and wonderful scientific facts about sex and at the same time aims to make your sex life better. What more could you want from a book?
Here’s the official blurb:
If you can transplant a face, then why not a penis? Why doesn’t Viagra help women or, for that matter, pandas? Does an orgasm boost fertility? Cure hiccups? Do the earlobes swell during sex? Can a person think herself to orgasm? Can a dead man get an erection? Can Kegeling cure erectile dysfunction? Can Broadway musicals cause it? Is vaginal orgasm a myth?
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, James Watson and Napoleon Bonaparte’s great grand-niece Marie. The research has taken place behind the closed doors of laboratories, brothels, MRI centres, pig farms, sex-toy R & D labs, and Alfred Kinsey’s attic. Mary Roach has devoted the past two years to stepping behind those doors. The result is Bonk – everything you wanted to know about sex but couldn’t imagine that someone in a white lab coat had studied. Few things are as fundamental to human happiness as satisfying sex. Bonk is both an ode to a fascinating and vital pursuit and a reminder that there is still much to learn. Sexual arousal and orgasm are two of the most complex, delightful, utterly amazing scientific phenomena on earth. Sexology, as Roach approaches it, is right up there too.
So the amazing bookshop I’m helping out is Embiggen Books which is a science, art and reason-celebrating bookshop. If you’re Australian you’ll find it cheaper to order from this shop than Amazon thanks to the reduced postage.
They’ve also got a surprising amount of books about sex – but they’re all guaranteed to be smart, sexy and engrossing.
I’ve read this book. It is indeed fantastic, Roach is a great author. The second half is a little slow, but it’s a very approachable, and fascinating book. Roach’s other book ‘Stiff’, about cadavers, is also a great read.
You will probably be pleased to know Mary Roach did a TED Talk based on this book: “10 Things You Didn’t Know About Orgasm.”
Check it out:
http://www.ted.com/talks/mary_roach_10_things_you_didn_t_know_about_orgasm.html