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Bonk : the curious coupling of science and sex / Mary Roach.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : W.W. Norton, c2008.Edition: 1st edDescription: 319 p. : ill. ; 22 cmISBN:
  • 9780393064643 (hardcover)
  • 0393064646 (hardcover)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 612.6 22
LOC classification:
  • QP251 .R568 2008
Contents:
The sausage, the porcupine and the agreeable Mrs. G : highlights from the pioneers of human sexual response -- Dating the penis-camera : can a woman find happiness with a machine? -- The princess and her pea : the woman who moved her clitoris, and other ruminations on intercourse orgasms -- The upsuck chronicles : does orgasm boost fertility, and what do pigs know about it? -- What's going on in there? : the diverting world of coital imaging -- The Taiwanese fix and the penile pricking ring : creative approaches to impotence -- The testicle pushers : if two are good, would three be better? -- Re-member me : transplants, implants, and other penises of last resort -- The lady's boner : is the clitoris a tiny penis? -- The prescription-strength vibrator : masturbating for health -- The immaculate orgasm : who needs genitals? -- Mind over vagina : women are complicated -- What would Allah say? : the strange, brave career of Ahmed Shafik -- Monkey do : the secret sway of hormones : "Persons studies in pairs" : the lab that uncovered great sex.
Summary: Roach shows how and why sexual arousal and orgasm can be so hard to achieve and what science is doing to make the bedroom a more satisfying place.
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Book Book Karen H. Huntsman Library Main Book Collection - Second Level 612.6 R53B 1 Available 38060007408552
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [307]-319).

The sausage, the porcupine and the agreeable Mrs. G : highlights from the pioneers of human sexual response -- Dating the penis-camera : can a woman find happiness with a machine? -- The princess and her pea : the woman who moved her clitoris, and other ruminations on intercourse orgasms -- The upsuck chronicles : does orgasm boost fertility, and what do pigs know about it? -- What's going on in there? : the diverting world of coital imaging -- The Taiwanese fix and the penile pricking ring : creative approaches to impotence -- The testicle pushers : if two are good, would three be better? -- Re-member me : transplants, implants, and other penises of last resort -- The lady's boner : is the clitoris a tiny penis? -- The prescription-strength vibrator : masturbating for health -- The immaculate orgasm : who needs genitals? -- Mind over vagina : women are complicated -- What would Allah say? : the strange, brave career of Ahmed Shafik -- Monkey do : the secret sway of hormones : "Persons studies in pairs" : the lab that uncovered great sex.

Roach shows how and why sexual arousal and orgasm can be so hard to achieve and what science is doing to make the bedroom a more satisfying place.

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