![]() Much of Bonk explores the unique challenges of researching this basic human activity. It comes as a surprise that our sex-obsessed society knows so little about how the act works. Most of the research is still conducted in poorly-funded laboratories, where staff conceal their jobs from friends and family behind baffling titles. In fact, as far as we may have come since Kinsey, sexology is still a difficult and curiously inexact science. If sex seems like a more conventional topic than those previous, the people and studies that Roach uncovers are anything but. While Stiff looked at cadavers and Spook studied the spirit world, Bonk covers the science of sex. ![]() Following the popular Stiff and Spook, Roach presents another monosyllabically-titled letter from the oddball research frontline with Bonk. The funny side of science is the gift that keeps giving for Californian writer Mary Roach. ![]()
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