Reading, Mary Roach

I was thoroughly tickled by the idea of a flourishing cadaver industry. Mary Roach's Stiff - The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers totally got my attention. Her sardonic wit is awesome. Her next book was a little surreal, I thought. While Spook - Science Tackles The Afterlife was laced with her fascinating provisions, it seemed like it was trying too hard. It was quirky though.

Now, she gives us Bonk - The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex. Her trademark jibes were undeniably daring, frank and ridiculously hilarious. It was incredible what her research turned up and she cleverly fit them into Bonk to induce page after page after page of giggles.

From Page 56 of the W.W. Norton & Company's hard cover 2008 edition:

William Harvey had an answer. In 1988, long before the current Internet-fueled sex-machine boom, this man obtained a patent for a Therapeutic Apparatus for Relieving Sexual Frustrations in Women Without Sex Partners. Unlike the machinists here tonight, Harvey was very clear on the purpose of his machine. "Vibrators and sex aids...cannot satisfy the true needs of a partnerless woman who wants not only the ultimate climax or orgasm, but also the feeling that she is actually having sex with a partner."