Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex

by Mary Roach

His colleagues had been outraged over the impropriety of a male doctor looking at female genitalia.

omg thats terrifying - insertion of a cathetar without looking!!!!????

This book is a tribute to the men and women who dared. Who, to this day, endure ignorance, closed minds, righteousness, and prudery. Their lives are not easy. But their cocktail parties are the best.

Also, we learned that the penis—root and stalk together—“has the shape of a boomerang” during intercourse. (Leonardo had drawn it stick-straight.) But not its precise dynamics. If you hurl an uprooted penis into the air, it will not come back to you. It will most likely, and who can blame it, want nothing to do with you.