Entre Piernas : La Extraordinaria Copula de Ciencia y Sexo

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• ISBN13: 9788496879553
• ISBN10: 8496879550
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 2012-04-01
• Publisher: Global Rhythm Press

Summary

Some of the most complex and bizarre aspects of human sexuality are explored in this humorous look at the science of sex. For two years, science writer Mary Roach peeked behind the closed doors of laboratories, brothels, sex shops, couples' homes, offices, and pig farms in order to uncover the strange lengths people will go to to find sexual satisfaction. Questions such as What is an orgasm? Why doesn't Viagra have an effect on women? and Do corpses get erections? are addressed with both physiological and anecdotal explanations in this quirky and open analysis of copulation. Algunos de los aspectos mas complejos y bizarros de la sexualidad humana son explorados en este vistazo humoristico a la ciencia del sexo. Durante dos anos, la escritora cientifica Mary Roach espio detras de las puertas cerradas de laboratorios, burdeles, tiendas del sexo, domicilios conyugales, oficinas y granjas porcinas para descubrir las cosas extranas que hacen las personas para conseguir la satisfaccion sexual. Preguntas comoQue es un orgasmo? Por que la viagra no efecta a las mujeres? yTienen erecciones los cadavares? son contestadas con explicaciones fisiologicas y anecdoticas en este analisis peculiar y abierto sobre la copulacion.

Author Biography

Mary Roach is a journalist and a licensed psychologist. She has written for publications such as GQ, the New York Times Magazine, Salon.com, and Wired and is the bestselling author of Packing for Mars, Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife, and Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers. She lives in Oakland, California. Álex Gibert is a translator who has also worked on Bones by Jonathan Kellerman, The Pythons: Autobiography, The R. Crumb Handbook, and Mary Roach's Stiff.