Telander of BookBanter, Roach answers the question of how she got started on her first book:Ī few of us every year would make predictions for other people, where they'll be in a year. It was in this community that Roach would get the push she needed to break into book writing. On her days off from the SFZS, she wrote freelance articles for the San Francisco Chronicle's Sunday Magazine.įrom 1996 to 2005 Roach was part of The Grotto, a San Francisco-based project and community of working writers and filmmakers. Her writing career began while working part-time at the San Francisco Zoological Society, producing press releases on topics such as elephant wart surgery. She worked as a columnist and also worked in public relations for a brief time. After college, Roach moved to San Francisco, California and spent a few years working as a freelance copy editor.
She received a bachelor's degree in psychology from Wesleyan University in 1981. To date, she has published five books: Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers (2003), Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife (2005) (published in some markets as Six Feet Over: Adventures in the Afterlife), Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex (2008), Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void (2010), and Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal (2013). Mary Roach is an American author, specializing in popular science. In Bonk, Roach shows us how and why sexual arousal and orgasm, two of the most complex, delightful, and amazing scientific phenomena on earth, can be so hard to achieve and what science is doing to slowly make the bedroom a more satisfying place. Mary Roach, “the funniest science writer in the country” (from The New Yorker), devoted the past two years to stepping behind those doors.Ĭan a person think herself to orgasm? Can a dead man get an erection? Is vaginal orgasm a myth? Why doesn’t Viagra help women-or, for that matter, pandas?
The research has taken place behind the closed doors of laboratories, brothels, MRI centers, pig farms, sex-toy R&D labs, and Alfred Kinsey’s attic.
The study of sexual physiology-what happens, and why, and how to make it happen better-has been a paying career or a diverting sideline for scientists as far-ranging as Leonardo da Vinci and James Watson. Bonk: The Curious Coupling Science and Sex
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