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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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