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Genre/Form: | Popular works Ouvrages de vulgarisation |
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Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Mary Roach |
ISBN: | 9780393064643 0393064646 9781607510000 1607510006 9780393334791 0393334791 |
OCLC Number: | 181139554 |
Description: | 319 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
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. |
Series Title: | April 2008. |
Responsibility: | Mary Roach. |
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"Roach ferrets out basic truths and endless absurd details amid mountains of dry science on her chosen subject. . . . It's a wonderful read, sprinkled with facts you can quote to amaze your friends." -- San Francisco Chronicle "[Mary Roach] is a bold, tenacious, and insatiable reporter. . . . A greatly satisfying romp." -- New York Times Book Review "Roll over, Kinsey. Mary Roach has done it again.... Bonk proves that full-bodied research can be riveting." -- O, The The Oprah Magazine "Roach is a fearless and witty reporter." -- Wall Street Journal "[An] account that is at once revealing-alarmingly so-and very very funny. She studs (forgive me) her journey with a multitude of knee-crossing bits of fact that will enliven bedtime conversation everywhere." -- Erik Larson, author of Devil in the White City Read more...

