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 Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex | Paperback

Mary Roach

WW Norton

Science / Life Sciences - Biology / Life Sciences - Human Anatomy & Physiology /
Psychology / Human Sexuality (see also Social Science - Human Sexuality)

Published Oct 4, 2022

"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.

An excerpt:

"France in the late-sixteenth and seventeenth centuries was "really and truly a
place where you did not want to be an impotent male. This was the era of the
""impotence trial."" Compared to the magistrates of these Reformation-era
trials, Dr.Bumstead is the Gumdrop Fairy. When theologians elevated marriage to
the status of a sacrament, impotence was likewise elevated, from a source of
frustration to an actual crime. And because impotence was thought to arise from
the intemperate spilling of one's seed, it was assumed that a man who could not
get hard for his wife had been spending too much time doing so for others. Or,
at the veryleast, that he was an immoderate masturbator.  Be that all as it was 
the main reason a man's erectile capacity found its way into the courts was that
impotence was a legal ground for divorce."

Then.. the author describes how the impotence test was performed..

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