Mary Roach

Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A New York Times Bestseller

"Rich in dexterous innuendo, laugh-out-loud humor and illuminating fact. It's compulsively readable." Los Angeles Times Book Review

In Bonk, the best-selling author of Stiff turns her outrageous curiosity and insight on the most alluring scientific subject of all: sex. Can a person think herself to orgasm? Why doesn't Viagra help womenor, for that matter, pandas? Can a dead man get an erection? Is vaginal orgasm a myth? Mary Roach shows us how and why sexual arousal and orgasmtwo of the most complex, delightful, and amazing scientific phenomena on earthcan be so hard to achieve and what science is doing to make the bedroom a more satisfying place.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: W. W. Norton & Company
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. April 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780393069211
• Artikelnr.: 59589674

Autorenporträt

Mary Roach is the author of five best-selling works of nonfiction, including Grunt, Stiff, and, most recently, Fuzz. Her writing has appeared in National Geographic and the New York Times Magazine, among other publications. She lives in Oakland, California.

Rezensionen

In this terrifically witty, hugely engaging study of the way we love, Mary Roach does meet some real oddballs, and on almost every page she tells you something to make you gasp aloud or snort with laughter Toby Clements Telegraph 20080503