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Luring any woman he desires into his bed simply by slipping her a Spanish fly transforming her from an innocent virgin into a wild uncontrollable insatiable sex-driven goddess is a recurrent fantasy in adult entertainment. However, fantasies are only activities for the idle mind. For centuries, people have claimed that aphrodisiacs in forms of poisons, foods, and plants, and recently drugs and alcohol excite them sexually, but studies have proven the contrary. For thousands of years, people have been looking for ways to improve their sexual experience though the use of certain foods, plants, or poisons. Because of their popularity across cultures for years, they’ve been given the name aphrodisiac meaning a substance that is arousing or intensifying sexual desire. It was derived from the Greek goddess of love, Aphrodite. Chilies, curries, and other spicy foods have often been used as aphrodisiacs because of the physiological effects, including increased heart rate and sweating, that are present during sex (Nordenberg). A spice native to Indonesia is the nutmeg. With the consumption of this drug, one will initially experience red eyes, nausea, headache, agitation, hyperactivity, sleeplessness, dry mouth and throat. When consuming large amounts of nutmeg, the user will report experiencing euphoria and visual hallucinations afterwards. However, the feelings of nausea take several days to pass. During this time, the user will sometimes become depressed and tired with aching bones and muscles. This creates a complete loss of interest in sex. Cantharides, or the Spanish fly, is made from the outer coating of a small beetle. This drug causes sensitive body membranes to itch like a woman’s vagina, and she will want to have sex to calm the irritation. It also gives men a large, but painful erection. However, this poison is also known to cause convulsions and kidney failure. Strychnine, extracted from the plant nux vomica, has been reported to sustain sexual arousal, but its’ really a deadly poison used most often to kill rodents (Rodgers). Wild yam provides a potent source of diosgenin, a chemical resembling female sex hormones; however, they create vaginal dryness making intercourse uncomfortable for women (Castleman). Why are chocolates so popular on valentines? Although chocolate has become increasingly available, it was once considered the “ultimate aphrodisiac” for its rarity and mystery (Nordenberg). If they don’t simulate physiological effects, users accredit their power to the law of similarity, which says that these substances resemble sexual genitalia, or the human form (Nordenberg).
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