Bonk : the curious coupling of science and 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.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Roach, Mary
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : W.W. Norton, [2008]
Edition:1st ed.
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Table of 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.