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From a perfume to a kiss, from a caress to excitement, from nudity to orgasm, this is how, with all the particulars dictated by science, we go from first sight to rolling in the sheets with someone. Alice Pace tells us all about it and does so observing sex from absolutely privileged points of view.

From inside our body, where eros is triggered off in a turbine of molecules, overheats the senses and sparks off, in its pleasurable crescendo, continuously evolving brain circuits, and from outside as well, where bodies come together in the strangest acrobatics and even those recommended by scientists. From above, with an attentive eye on following not only the paths of pleasure, but also those which in time have transformed our image of intimacy.

This is the right book for everyone who wants to understand the reason for everything (really everything) that happens at those moments and for everyone who wants to enjoy, between a toy and an app, all the possible nuances of sex today. And to fantasize about what it will be like tomorrow.

Alice Pace is a freelance scientific journalist who writes about science, medicine and innovation for “Wired”, “D La Repubblica”, “HealthDesk” and “OggiScienza”. In 2013 she won a scholarship to Harvard as an Armenise-Harvard Science Writer Fellow and in 2014 the Piazzano award for scientific journalism. With her investigative work on the Stem cell case, the same year she received the prize for the best article at the Macchianera Italian Awards.