Atlanta

a book recommendation
verlan 89 Reviews 1371 reads
posted

Bella-sora's thread below prompted me to suggest a book I recently read that I thought people here might enjoy:

'Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex' by Mary Roach

    from the book description: "... scientists studying sex are often treated with disdain, as though there is something inherently suspicious about the enterprise. Yet through understanding the anatomy, physiology, and psychology of sexual response, scientists can help us toward greater marital and nonmarital happiness. Such altruistic intentions, which the book shares, aren’t the wellspring of its appeal, however. That lies in the breezy tone in which Roach describes erectile dysfunction among polygamists, penis cameras, relative organ sizes and enhancement devices, and dozens of other titillating subjects. Not to be missed: the martial art of yin diao gung (“genitals hanging kung fu”), monkey sex athletes, and the licensing of porn stars’ genitals for blow-up reproductions. To stay on the ethical side of human-subjects experimentation, Roach offers herself as research subject several times, resulting in some of her best writing."

Does anyone have any other book recommendations?

Michel Houellebecq- The Elementary Particles (Atomised)

"Unhealthy and haunting, rich and provocative, Atomised astonishes both as a novel of ideas and as the portrait of a society -- a humanity -- that has lost its ability to connect."

Some of us might see something familiar in this book. ;)

"Sperm Wars" by Robin Baker.  A very insightful evolutionary approach to human sexuality.

"Hos, Hookers, Call Girls, and Rent Boys" by David Henry Sterry. A collection of writings by current or former sex workers, it is at turns heartwarming, hilarious, terrifying, and inspiring... but never boring.

atlreanne223480 reads

Novel about domination and submission written as a series of love letters by Reage, to her lover, who admired Marquis De Sade

Register Now!