Kimberly T’s Reviews > Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex > Status Update

Penis implants are so freaky.

“*A comforting word about the crooked penis. Dr. Hsu says it is rare to see one that stands perfectly straight. Actually, what he said was: most men are communists! Lean to the left! Second most common: bow down, like Japanese gentleman! Number three, to the right. Four, up! Like elephant!”

What a dude.

“Before Schultz’s MRIs, few had realized how much of the penis lies hidden below the surface of the skin. The root is nearly two thirds again the length of the pendulous part. So if your erection is, say, 6 inches long, go ahead and say it’s 10. I’ll back you up.”

“Um, let’s see..volunteers will be asked to place their body parts of interest..so it’s basically just the body parts of interest. We could take a day trip to Stonehenge, see a couple plays. Jeremy Irons is in something.”

Ed doesn’t care about Stonehenge or Jeremy Irons. But agreed anyway.

(Mary and Ed are gonna do ultrasound sex. FOR SCIENCE??)

“Then came Dr. Talmey,*

*Not to be trusted.”

Cackled!

“It might be tempting to dismiss Dickinson as a pervert, but nothing could be further from the truth. He simply believed that lame sex destroyed more marriages than did anything else… and something ought to be done.”

There’s my first laugh of the book! Shoutout to this guy.

“My first book was about human cadavers, and as a result, people assumed that I’m obsessed with death, now that I have written books about both sex and death, God only knows what the word the street is.”

Yay another Mary Roach book! This time, about sex research! Properly fitting for me who works with herpes.