The questions and answers were kind of interesting. However, the commentary from the authors was terrble. Not sure if it was supposed to be funny, but I ended up skipping over most of it from boredom.

Another fun book from these two. There were a few questions that I did skim through because I had no interest in the answer, but I feel I learned quite a bit in a rather humorous way. Hoping for another installment!

It's good to know that cockroach still live after the nuke war (when we all die). It's good to know that it's OK to fall asleep (if you are a man) after have sex. And lots more important-but-not-so-important things that you'd only ask a doctor after your third glass of gin.

Meh. It was a fun idea but poorly executed. It wasn't funny even though they tried really hard. They also breezed through the interesting science way too fast. Fail.

Once again, easily amused...

A little bit outrageous, but very helpful and thoroughly researched. And most definitely entertaining.

The follow-up to Why Do Men Have Nipples?: Hundreds of Questions You'd Only Ask a Doctor After Your Third Martini, and it’s essentially more of the same – answers to fun medical questions mixed with fictional weirdness from Leyner and IM transcripts between him and Goldberg. Which is fine, though they really should consider editing the IM stuff to make it easier to read.

Fun read, useless facts.

It is a fun book with useless facts based on questions they got from readers. The facts are actually quite well described and scientifically true. The most bizarre questions are answered in the book and the answers are fun to read. However, they also put in some personal communication between the two authors... I think this is really unnecessary and actually I found it quite annoying... I still need to read the other book (why do men have nipples) I hope it will be as much fun as this book. I will skip the personal communication again.

I would recommend this book as a fun book in between, or on vacation. When you want to read, but don't want to pay too much attention. Or even before a family gathering so you can awe them with your new knowledge ;).

In the true punk spirit of "contempt for the audience". I asked for people's book recommendations, and ignored them all.

There was a book on the Bestseller list recently called "Why Do Men Have Nipples?"

I saw this and wanted to check it out, of course. Books like this (to me) are instant bestsellers. Any kind of quirky information sells, it's why snopes.com and The Straight Dope websites are so popular and I think why John Stossel's last book sold so many copies.

Stossel, the poor man's Geraldo and the receipent of "Dr D" David Schultz's real-life piledriver has parlayed his job as 20/20 consumer affairs correspondent into a career as kooky loud-mouth conservative, and frequent Fox News guest. His Myths, lies and Downright Stupidity included his look at various myths and misconceptions.

Of course, Stossel is a bore, and so I imagine the book is no fun at all.

Q: Is bottled water better than tap?

A: Well, because of policies enacted under President Clinton....

Or at least, I imagine it goes something like that. So, you have to always check these books to see who writes them.

I had seen the book a few times before I even realized Mark Leyner was one of the co-writers. I had to check and re-check that it was the Mark Leyner, and it indeed was.

So, I was sold. I didn't pick up "...Nipples?", but I did pick up the follow-up "Why Do Men Fall Asleep After Sex?"

I want to say if books like that interest you, you have to check it out. Leyner is hilarious. I also highly recommend his fiction (which came from a recommendation from defrog years ago, and you thought I didn't listen) to anyone and everyone here.

Read all of his novels (he doesn't have that many). Start with The Tetherballs of Bougainville, if I must recommend one book.

If you like Vonnegut, Sedaris, Hunter Thompson, or Dave Barry, he's not like them, but he's in the ballpark. One of the descriptions I have heard is "Burroughs meets Beavis & Butthead", and as much as I wouldn't wish that label on anyone, it could be close.

If you have read the novels, you will enjoy the nonfiction stuff as well, as the humor definitely seeps through.

Answer: Orgasms cause certain hormones to be released that, coupled with post-coitol exhaustion, generate drowsiness. Why men and not women? No, not just because they are more exhausted! But, also because it appears that some guys sometimes have sex with girls without causing them to cum, therefore not causing the drowsiness. Poor girls, victims of their own poor taste.

Anyway, the book was actually pretty well full of interesting tidbits. Some bits were a little mundane, and then there's the section on pregnancy, but even that was interesting because what this book boils down to is a snopes.com or urbanlegend.com of medical phenomenon. Questions of "Why...?" and "Is it true that...?" left me feeling enriched and enlightened medically and socially while reading this book.

Also, the authors (an M.D. and a zany professional writer) are fun. And, they use a literary technique that I have never seen before, but that actually worked quite well for them: they transcripted their own Instant Messanger conversations that they were having while writing the book. Though I'm sure they thought this would be a chic, cool, ultra modern gimmick, it also turns out to be a fascinating insight into their writing and research processes.

Kind of weird. There were a few interesting tid-bits interspersed with some really bizarre anecdotes about their counseling practice. I can't really say I would recommend this book to anyone that I know.