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  1. Mary Roach _ Bonk: The Curious Coupling of

    The feminist in me, who is small and sleeps a lot but can be scrappy when provoked, took umbrage at this description.
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    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. p
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    We were unable to obtain any lesbians," Pomeroy says, as though perhaps they hadn't been in season, or his paperwork wasn't in order.}
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    I am of the opinion that the vulva of Your Most Sacred Majesty should be titillated for some length of time before intercourse.
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    The only conclusion I feel sure of at this point," he mused, "is that women are too complicated.
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    Monkeys offer an unadulterated demonstration of the power of hormones, as the females are not concerned about pregnancy or what their friends will think.
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    Your genes want you to get pregnant, and hormones are their magic wand.
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    {Kinsey's studies included} stutterers, amputees, paraplegics, even those with cerebral palsy were observed. Kinsey wanted to document the full spectrum of human sexuality, but it was more than that. He believed these people might have things to teach us about the physiology of sex. And he was right. These groups alerted Kinsey--and the scientific community as a whole--to the complicated and crucial role of the central nervous system in sex and reproduction. Kinsey had noted that a stutterer in the throes of sexual abandon may temporarily lose his stutter. Similarly, the phantom limb pain some amputees feel temporarily disappears. Even the muscle spasticity of cerebral palsy may be briefly quieted. The body's limiting factors seem to get shut off. The organism is driven toward nature's singular goal--conception, the passing on of one's genes--and anything that stands in the way is pushed into the background.
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  9. Mary Roach _ Bonk: The Curious Coupling of

    Sipski defines orgasm as a reflex of the autonomic nervous system that can be either facilitated or inhibited by cerebral input {thoughts and feelings}.
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    Last year, I was conversing by e-mail with an acquaintance who was investigating the black market in cadaver parts. She came into possession of a sales list for a company that provides organs and tissues for research. On the list was "vagina with clitoris." She did not believe that there could be a legitimate research purpose for cadaver genitalia. She assumed the researcher had procured the part to have sex with it. I replied that physiologists and people who study sexual dysfunction still have plenty to learn about female arousal and orgasm, and that I could, with little trouble, imagine someone needing such a thing. Besides, I said to this woman, if the guy wanted to nail the thing, do you honestly think he'd have bothered with the clitoris?
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  11. Mary Roach _ Bonk: The Curious Coupling of

    Sex is one of those rare topics wherein the desire for others to keep the nitty-gritty of their experiences private is stronger even than the wish to keep mum on one's own nitty-gritty."
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  12. Mary Roach _ Bonk: The Curious Coupling of

    heterosexuals failed to grasp that if you lost yourself in the tease-in the pleasure and power of turning someone on-that that could be as arousing as being teased and turned on oneself.
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