interim book report

I've lately been reading Bonk by Mary Roach, the author of Stiff:  The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers.  In a similar conversational but in-depth style, the book tackles research into the physiology of sex, including the history of researchers like Kinsey and M&J, Countess Bonaparte's relocated clitorus, and, of course, tales of (skinny, agile, and apparently not shy) test subjects boinking in a CAT scan machine.

I tell you, I have never read anything which made me laugh, and cringe painfully, in such evenly equal measure.  (The section on penis vein surgery made me want to put my head between my knees, and not in a good way IYKWIM)

Not as good as Stiff, but interesting stuff nonetheless.  I would give one of my smaller fingers for the author's descriptive gift and eye for detail.