http://www.flickr.com/photos/jessicaweiser/1031910183/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/keefe/1029305983/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/tommehilton/2928903285/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/redleafstudios/2109291046/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/7651273@N02/576002195/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/sandratorralba/754661997/

Perfectly timed - this arrived in my RSS feeds this afternoon, tempting enough to make me fork over the $16 and change for it. Because, you know, I don’t have enough books to read in the 12 or so boxes of them that we are still unpacking.

But this was irresistible:

“The study of sexual physiology—what happens, and why, and how to make it happen better—has been going on for centuries, behind the closed doors of laboratories, brothels, Alfred Kinsey’s attic, and, more recently, MRI centers, pig farms, and sex-toy R&D labs.  I spent two years wheedling  and conniving my way behind those doors to bring you the answers to the questions Dr. Ruth never asked.  Is your penis three inches longer than you think? Is vaginal orgasm a myth?  Can a dead man get an erection? Why doesn’t Viagra help women—or, for that matter, pandas?”

For a geeky grad student of semiotics (how we assign meaning to symbols/words/stimulus) and cognitive science, it doesn’t get any better than this. I can think of at least two of you who would enjoy paging through it, too, and I can pass it along when I’m done with it if you’re interested.

Anyone who’d like their own can find it here.