Let me commend for your consideration Ms. Mary Roach's new book Bonk, ISBN 978-0-393-06464-3. Ms. Roach has written a column for Reader's Digest for several years. In the most recent issue of National Geographic an article by her examines primate behavior, publishing proof of certain hunting activities by open plain chimpanzees that anthropologists have been as reluctant to recognize as the early popes were the solarcentricity of the planets. She is an attractive, intelligent and engaging author who writes with panache and the serene confidence of one who has mastered not only the skill of writing but of thinking. This book of hers, BONK, is probably the richest concentration of crucial information on the subject of sex that has ever been produced. The Kinsey Report purported to give statistics of various behaviors of the sexes, but did not venture far beyond that topic. The works of Masters and Johnson ranged widely over the topic and brought to light many previously unknown facts, concepts and ideas, usually of a scientific nature devoid of emotion. Bonk, however, covers the totality of human sexual culture as it exists currently, and even explores various animal venues (Bear with me, please! [No pun intended]). This book gives a detailed satellite image of the entire planet of sex, including the often recondite backgrounds of topics as well-known as the breakthroughs of Van Andel, Schultz, Mooyaart, Sabelis and Jupp [LNNG], whose works earned them the Millenium Ig Nobel Prize in medicine; the previously mentioned Kinsey, Masters and Johnson; and an exhaustive list of other researchers. Terms not familiar to the ordinary intelligent reader are carefully but succinctly explained. The tone is hilariously informal (or informally hilarious), but such a vehicle carries a cargo of the finest gold. It is the most valuable work on the subject I have ever seen. If you have not read the book, please obtain it and read at least the first five pages. It cannot help but enhance the knowledge, insight and wisdom of any human soul who reads it, and bodes well to make the battleground between male and female a less user-hostile area. By way of disclaimer, I am not related to Ms. Roach nor to any company with any interest of any sort in the success of this book. I have never met her, and am at most simply an admiring reader of her wide ranging interests and works. But even without this disclaimer, the book speaks for itself. Read the first five pages and then just try to put it down. I'll bet that when you're done you'll agree with me in my assessment.