"Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex" by Mary Roach
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 women-or, 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 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 make the bedroom a more satisfying place.
10 BEST QUOTES FROM "BONK" BY MARY ROACH
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“Cheese crumbs spread in front of a copulating pair of rats may distract the female, but not the male.”
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“Women, both gay and straight, will show immediate genital arousal (as measured by a photoplethysmograph) in response to films of sexual activity, regardless of who is engaging in it—male, female, gay, straight, good hair or bad. Men, contrary to stereotype, tend to respond in a limited manner; they are aroused only by footage that fits their sexual orientation and interests.”
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“The stereotypical ideal female—Barbie tall with Barbie big breasts—is the one least likely to respond to a manly hammering.”
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“The paper does not provide the exact number of penises eaten by ducks, but the author says there have been enough over the years to prompt the coining of a popular saying: 'I better get home or the ducks will have something to eat.’”
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“It is the mind that speaks a woman's heart, not the vaginal walls.”
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“Hormones are nature's three bottles of beer.”
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“Sexual desire is a state not unlike hunger.”
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“Masters points out that the heterosexuals were at a disadvantage, as they do not benefit from what he called “gender empathy”. Doing unto your partner as you would do unto yourself only works well when you’re gay.”
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“Your genes want you to get pregnant, and hormones are their magic wand.”
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“Women who routinely have orgasm in intercourse without explicit clitoral stimulation all say that it makes little difference what the guy does, as long as he doesn’t come too soon,”
