It is an unholy marriage: As one can imagine, the laboratory is not the preferred location for humans to mate or be observed mating. Roach, an Oaklander who also wrote the best-seller 'Stiff,' about the fate of cadavers, and 'Spook,' about the scientific study of the afterlife, spent two years researching and writing on sex and science. I didn't really ask any more questions about that.' 'He said that people were returning the toothbrushes after they broke and clearly had been used as a vibrator. 'I asked him, how do you know women are using them to masturbate?' Roach said.

Woog, who also invented the first electric toothbrush.' Apparently, after Woog heard that women were repurposing the toothbrushes for masturbatory use, he decided to just make a vibrator himself.

'This is in the book,' she says, picking up an Eroscillator package. On an adjoining table is a modern device named the Eroscillator, with the catchphrase 'the science of pleasure.' One looks like an electric mixer, and another is oddly named the Eskimo. Roach takes a peep at two glass cases full of antique vibrators. The exact source of the floral scent was unknown, but the display of lubricants and body oil might have had something to do with it. (Apr.Indeed, it was a sweet-smelling store filled with sex toys. Roach's forays offer fascinating evidence of the full range of human weirdness, the nonsense that has often passed for medical science and, more poignantly, the extreme lengths to which people will go to find sexual satisfaction. The payoff comes with subjects like female orgasm (yes, it's complicated), and characters like Ahmed Shafik, who defies Cairo's religious repressiveness to conduct his sex research.

Now she explores the sexiest subject of all: sex, and such questions as, what is an orgasm? How is it possible for paraplegics to have them? What does woman want, and can a man give it to her if her clitoris is too far from her vagina? At times the narrative feels insubstantial and digressive (how much do you need to know about inseminating sows?), but Roach's ever-present eye and ear for the absurd and her loopy sense of humor make her a delectable guide through this unesteemed scientific outback. ) and whether you can weigh a person's soul (in Spook Instead, she ventures out to the fringes of science, where the oddballs ponder how cadavers decay (in her debut, Stiff She doesn't write about genes or black holes or Schrödinger's cat.

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