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"  You&amp;#039;d think nothing could make the author of a book on cadavers squeamish, but as Mary Roach (Stiff, Spook) admits in Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex (Norton), &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;ve been tripping over the cringe factor all year.&amp;quot; Luckily for her\u2014and us\u2014there are less inhibited souls willing to have sex with penis-cameras or get their clitorises measured, or we might still believe that female pleasure leads to something called &amp;quot;uterine upsuck&amp;quot;\u2014a piece of vaginal propaganda, as Roach calls it, from the turn of the last century.   With Roach as our deadpan historian, Bonk pays tribute to the big guns\u2014Kinsey, Masters, and Johnson\u2014as well as to unsung heroes who have devoted their lives to our libidos, such as Marie Bonaparte, a French noble-woman who had a hunch that the reason she didn&amp;#039;t climax during intercourse was that her clitoris was too far from her vagina. She proceeded to study more than 200 women&amp;#039;s genitalia in 1924 to prove her theory. (Women with spans of less than one inch got the most from the old in-and-out.) Though Roach eventually offers her own body (and that of her good-natured husband) to science by having sex on an ultrasound machine, she seems more interested in arcana than in the current state of inquiry into human sexuality. There are still major questions that scientists haven&amp;#039;t answered: Does the G-spot exist, and what is it, anyway? Do Kegel exercises really make you more orgasmic? Is female sexuality such a mystery because women are more complicated or because research is still geared toward men and their equipment?   But Bonk is highly entertaining despite these, dare I say, frustrations. While I wish Roach had actually tried the Intrinsa testosterone patch for women (available only in Europe) instead of just mentioning it, I understand why she prefers to explore the absurdities of mating on a Danish hog farm. Sows, at least, have clitorises inside their vaginas. Marie Bonaparte would be pleased (and more than a bit jealous). "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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