Secrets from the Sex Lab

Sex makes us act in mysterious ways. Try as we can to explain it, all too often we’re left scratching our heads, stirred by forces that seem beyond our control or comprehension. One minute, you’re at a party digging into the cheese dip. The next, you’ve dragged someone home and are burrowing into each other as if the meaning of life were buried between you. How does that happen?

That’s where this book can help. Every day, scientists who study sex pack their lunch, go to work, and study in detail something that most of us do while fumbling around in the dark. If their advice seems a little out there, that’s because they’re pioneers, going where none have gone before, probing nooks and crannies and embarrassing topics that would make most of us blush. You’re probably familiar with Alfred Kinsey, who rocked America’s perceptions of what people do in bed in the 1950s, but he is only one of hundreds of researchers who has examined sex and come to some startling conclusions. Here are just a few of the more recent discoveries from the field of sex research:

• To find your perfect partner, you should sleep with twelve people before settling down.
• If you ride a roller coaster with your date, you will appear more attractive once the ride’s over.
• An MRI scan of your brain can reveal if you’re in love.
• There’s a genetic test that can predict who will cheat—and a vaccine in the works to keep them faithful.
• Some people can have nose orgasms, or knee orgasms.
• Under microscopes, they’ve identified new kinds of sperm called “killers” and “blockers” that contribute to reproduction in surprising ways.
• On tumbling mats, they’ve forged new sex positions like the Coital Alignment Technique, which has a great track record yielding orgasms.
• With a few well-placed electrodes, scientists invented an orgasmatron that triggers peaks with the push of a button.

Sex scientists have seen things. Weird things. Wonderful things. And now is your chance to cash in on their hard work.