698 Bonk: Sex Research

Despite our seeming obsession with sex on television, in movies and on the Web, Americans might know less about sex than they think. A puritanical streak in our culture tends to discourage discussion of the topic. But scientists have been studying sex for decades, even before Kinsey or Masters & Johnson. Science writer Mary Roach looked into the history of the experiments and talked with modern day investigators to summarize for us what the researchers have learned.
Guest: Mary Roach is a science writer who has been contributing editor at the science magazine Discover and a winner of the American Engineering Societies’ Engineering Journalism Award. Her books include Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers; Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife; and Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex. Her Web site is www.maryroach.net

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