Kim's review
Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex
by Mary Roach
Kim's review
Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex by Mary Roach
Kim's review
rating:
I wanted to read this book because Mary Roach's Stiff, which explores what happens to the human body after death, is one of the best books I've ever read. I did not enjoy Bonk quite as much as Stiff, but it was still very good. Mary Roach is a delightful writer--highly articulate, funny and sometimes snarky, but always treating her subject with respect. In reading this book I learned some things I kind of wish I hadn't, like how to increase the likelihood of pigs getting pregnant when artificially inseminated (trust me, you don't want me to tell you). Perhaps it says something about me that I was more squeamish reading about sex than death. At any rate, I would recommend this book to anyone who has a scientific but slightly-on-the- morbid-side curiosity about sex of all kinds. Caveat lector: DO NOT read it expecting to be titillated.
