(from the jacket:) The study of sexual physiology -- what happens, and why, and how to make it happen better -- has been a paying career or a diverting sideline for scientists as far-ranging as Leonardo da Vinci and James Watson. The research has taken place behind the closed doors of laboratories, brothels, MRI centers, pig farms, sex toy R&D labs, and Alfred Kinsey's attic.

Mary Roach devoted the past two years to stepping behind those doors. Can a person think herself to orgasm? Can a dead man get an erection? Is vaginal orgasm a myth? Why doesn't Viagra help women -- or, for that matter, pandas? In Bonk, Roach shows us how and why sexual arousal and orgasm -- two of the most complex, delightful, and scientifically complex phenomena on earth -- can be so hard to achieve and what science is doing to slowly make the bedroom a more satisfying place.
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