6/30/2023 0 Comments Bonk by mary roach![]() ![]() What did you expect?” Other factors were in play, of course, but one can reasonably argue that Alfred Kinsey got in trouble because he published scientific evidence that women enjoyed and participated in sexual acts that couldn’t, or weren’t intended to, result in children. Having premarital sex sex with each other. ![]() Clara replies: “You told them their grandmothers and their daughters are masturbating. “I’m trying to find out why people hate this book so,” he says. In a scene from the 2004 biopic Kinsey, the scientist reads scathing reviews over his wife’s protests. 1953’s Sexual Behavior in the Human Female, however, inspired backlash so severe that the Rockefeller Foundation yanked his funding. Stephanie Eve Boone reviews Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex, by Mary Roach, and More: Population, Nature, and What Women Want, by Robert EngelmanĪlfred Kinsey’s 1948 book Sexual Behavior in the Human Male was controversial like a fox, a best-seller that brought him international acclaim. ![]()
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