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Review: Bonk by Mary Roach

By Deborah Blum

23 April 2008

Mary Roach answers 10 questions about the science of sex here

YOU are so lucky to be married to me, I tell my husband. I remind him of this often. He gives me that all-too-familiar cornered beagle look: where is she going with this? I wave around Mary Roach’s new book, , describing her success in persuading her husband to have sex in a laboratory while researchers took ultrasound images. For those of you that are interested, her description appears on page 125: “Ed keeps up an idle, disaffected rhythm.”

My point, I tell my husband, is that I’ve never…

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