Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex - Rilegato

Roach, Mary

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ISBN 10: 0393064646 ISBN 13: 9780393064643

Casa editrice: W W Norton & Co Inc, 2008

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A whimsical assessment of the science of sexual physiology considers the lighter side of such topics as the arousal of cadavers, mythologies about a woman's ability to experience orgasm, and the ineffectiveness of Viagra on female pandas. By the author of Stiff and Spook.

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The best-selling author of "Stiff" turns her outrageous curiosity and infectious wit on the most alluring scientific subject of all: sex. 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 and James Watson. The research has taken place behind the closed doors of laboratories, brothels, MRI centers, pig farms, sex-toy R&D labs, and Alfred Kinsey's attic. Mary Roach, "the funniest science writer in the country" (Burkhard Bilger of "The New Yorker"), devoted the past two years to stepping behind those doors. Can a person think herself to orgasm? Can a dead man get an erection? Is vaginal orgasm a myth? Why doesn't Viagra help women--or, for that matter, pandas? In "Bonk," Roach shows us how and why sexual arousal and orgasm, two of the most complex, delightful, and amazing scientific phenomena on earth, can be so hard to achieve and what science is doing to slowly make the bedroom a more satisfying place. 16 illustrations.

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• Editore: W W Norton & Co Inc
• Data di pubblicazione: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0393064646
• ISBN 13: 9780393064643
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 319