Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex by Mary Roach sounds like my kind of book:
In writing about sexuality, a universally loaded subject if there ever was one, the tendency is often either to arouse or entertain. Roach pounces upon the latter, relishing in turns of phrase guaranteed to make readers cross their legs and other writers seethe with jealousy that they didn't think of it. "For ten-plus centuries, the womb was considered less an organ than an independent creature, able to move about the woman's body like a badger in its den."
An erection "is a respectable achievement, but it is not enough. An erection, like a motorcycle or a lawn, must also be maintained." "Orgasm appears to be a state not unlike that of the alien abductees one always hears about, coming to with messy hair and a chunk of time unaccounted for."
An irrepressible eagerness shines throughout "Bonk," the joyful urge to show off the fruits of the journey. You can almost imagine the author sitting in a library surrounded by stacks of research, fighting the impulse to scream and punch the air upon discovering her favorite quote of all time from Kinsey: "Cheese crumbs spread in front of a copulating pair of rats may distract the female, but not the male."
I can relate. I'm never distracted by cheese crumbs.
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