Bonk (2008) (edit title/settings)

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• Johnson
• Ahmed Shafik
• Robert Latou Dickinson
• Sipski
• Marie Bonaparte
• Watson
• Kim Wallen
• Cindy Meston
• Anne Marie
• Roy Levin
• Leonardo
• Alfred Kinsey
• Martin
• Beck
• Dr. Foreman
• Gwen
• Dr. Deng
• Stopes
• Mr. Wang
• Jupp
• Kegel
• Barry Komisaruk
• Cole
• Marty
• Rayner
• Curt
• Stein
• Brindley
• William Masters
• Van De Velde

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• “This book is a tribute to the men and women who dared. Who, to this day, endure ignorance, closed minds, righteousness, and prudery. Their lives are not easy. But their cocktail parties are the best.”

• “Indeed, the first widespread surgical treatment of impotence was a farce of grand proportions.”

• “Nasal congestion is an erection in your nose.”

• “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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• “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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• “I better get home or the ducks will have something to eat.”

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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 spinal reflex known as the Lazarus sign has been spooking doctors for centuries. If you trigger the right spot on the spinal cord of a freshly dead body or a beating-heart cadaver—meaning someone brain-dead but breathing via a respirator, pending the removal of organs for transplant—it will stretch out its arms and then raise them up and cross them over its chest.

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• This would fit in with the little-known fact that the last portion of a man’s ejaculate contains a natural spermicide—not intended to kill his own soldiers, obviously, but to annihilate the seed of any who come after him.

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• Their readable and comprehensive The Science of Orgasm says that people who have regular orgasms seem to have less stress and enjoy lower rates of heart disease, breast cancer, prostate cancer, and endometriosis. They also appear to live longer.

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• At the top of the women’s turn-on list was, mysteriously, a mixture of cucumber and Good ’n’ Plenty candy. It was said to increase vaginal blood flow by 13 percent.*

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• “In direct manipulation of the clitoris there is a narrow margin between stimulation and irritation.”

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• Bremelanotide is expected to be in Phase III clinical trials (the final stage in the FDA approval process) by late 2008. The other contender trotted out at the most recent meeting of the International Society for the Study of Women’s Sexual Health is a central nervous system drug called flibanserin.

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• Cairo
• San Francisco
• London
• Egypt
• Taiwan
• Denmark
• Topco
• Taipei
• University Of California

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Glossary edit see section history

• HAFD: hyperactive acronym formation disorder

Authors & Contributors edit see section history

1. Mary Roach (Author)

First Edition edit see section history

Classification edit see section history

• Library of Congress: QP251.R568 2008
• Dewey: 612.6

Notes for Parents edit see section history

This book is a scientific look at sex that some parents might find objectionable. There is some humor that is mildly crude, but for the most part the book looks at sex, orgasm, fertilization, etc. as a true researcher and scientist.

Subjects edit see section history

• Books › Professional & Technical › Professional Science › Biological Sciences › Biology › Human
• Books › Health, Mind & Body › Psychology & Counseling › Sexuality › Human
• Books › Nonfiction › Social Sciences › Sociology
• Books › Science › Biological Sciences › Anatomy
• Books › Science › Biological Sciences › Biology
• Books › Science › History & Philosophy
• Books › Health, Mind & Body › Sex

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