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    Bonk

    Mary Roach · 2008

    Few things are as fundamental to human happiness as sex, and few writers are as entertaining about the subject as Mary Roach. Can a woman think herself to orgasm? Is your penis three inches longer than you think? Why doesn't Viagra help women - or, for that matter, pandas? Does orgasm boost fertility? Or cure hiccups? The study of sexual physiology - what happens, and why, and how to make it happen better - has been taking place behind closed doors for hundreds of years. In this fascinating and funny book, Mary Roach steps inside laboratories, brothels, pig farms, sex-toy R&D labs - even Alfred Kinsey's attic - to tell us everything we wanted to know about sex, and a lot we'd never even thought to ask.

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    2recommend
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    2people
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    100% recommend

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    What Hacker News says

    1. SymmetryApr 2021
      There was a bit on those experiments in Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex by Mary Roach. She has a good way of writing that's both funny and informative.
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    2. kayallFeb 2018
      Mary Roach. Her books are quite fun to read.

      The titles are good too.

      Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers

      Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex

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