Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex by Mary Roach Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex
Book Review: Great writer, great book
Summary: 5 Stars
I have enjoyed all Mary Roach's books and this is no exception. Good tongue in cheek approach to science subjects.Book Review: My review of "Bonk: The curious coupling of science and sex."
Summary: 5 Stars
This is a fascinating book, full of details and information on that most intriguing of subjects, sex. I laughed while I learned.
Highly recommended.
Book Review: Decent read
Summary: 3 Stars
I really don't understand why so many others gave this book a 5 star rating. Overall it was an interesting book but the extensive footnoting was a bit annoying. Funny?...not really. Not as good as I had hoped but I don't regret the purchase.Book Review: Compulsive Mary Roach Reader
Summary: 5 Stars
As a steady reader of Mary Roach books I was so glad for Bonk! After Spook I must say I was a little discouraged, it got too opinionated, and judging by her wonderful ability to laugh at the impersonal and not take clear sides- I was worried she would not recover... and then there was Bonk. It is funny, as typical Roach, charming, awkward and a little endearing in only the way chapters about monkey mating and condom balloon insertion can get. If you liked stiff there are even some fun cadaver facts thrown in just for you. Definitely pick this book up. Book Review: Everything you never thought to ask about sex research
Summary: 5 Stars
To mimic a phrase from the book itself, Bonk is a book that was "undertaken simply for the sake of understanding the world" of sex research.
In researching the history of many investigations into sex, Mary Roach looks at an intimate topic in a fun and journalistic way that removes almost all the titillation. I say almost all, because to be honest, I almost had a wet dream the night I read the chapter about the orgasmic ability of women with spinal cord injuries.
But don't let that be the reason you buy this book. Buy it because you want to be entertained, fascinated, and educated...while reading about sex. E.g., what good does it do to surgically move the clit__is to the magic distance one inch from the birth canal*? What will men do for a better erection? (Answer: just about anything, such as transplant gonads from other men and animals) Why do sex researchers use themselves as test subjects? Why did Kinsey stick toothbrushes down his urethra and film it for posterity? And why do authors writing about sex researchers fly to England to see their intertwined parts via ultrasound?
It's amazing what people will do for sex and science. But thanks to Roach's extensive research, all you have to do is read this book.
* I didn't know if Amazon precluded certain anatomical words.