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April’s book club selection, not a book I would have picked and I almost did not read it. That said, I enjoyed this book and a few times even laughed out loud. The book is about various areas of sexual research. I really enjoyed Mary Roach’s writing; a couple of my favorite passages follow. Apparently at one time, in the 1970’s, many penises were cut off by vengeful wives in Thailand. So much so that reattachment surgery was “perfected.” Roach writes, “When a suitably equipped microsurgeon was on hand to reattach the errant appendage, the men were able to resume philandering within a matter of months.” “Women who came to him for contraceptive advice were told to wear a piece of cat liver in an ivory tube attached to their left foot. Though I suppose this might well keep you from getting pregnant, in the same way that wearing Birkenstocks might.” “If it’s any solace, even female rats have trouble focusing. I give you a sentence, my favorite sentence in the entire oeuvre of Alfred Kinsey, from Sexual Behavior in the Human Female: “Cheese crumbs spread in front of a copulating pair of rats may distract the female, but not the male.”” About a female type Viagra drug’s side effects: “And a drug that can make a woman with “black dots on face” feel sexy is a drug to look into further.”

2022-10-29 03:19