Word: aphrodisiac
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...most refined bestiality. He could not pass near his spouse without trying to caress or kiss her, or to lift her skirt with a view to touching her. Several times a day he pursued her with assiduity, covering her with kisses on her entire body. And these aphrodisiac acts seemed the most natural thing in the world to him. Mme. Franconville justly called him a satyr...
Breeding has worked superbly at the Phoenix Zoo, which now contains 29 Arabian oryxes, the largest collection of this species of rare antelope outside their native Saudi Arabia. Oryxes are vanishing because the desert Arabs believe their corkscrew horns are an aphrodisiac. The animals will only be returned to Saudi Arabia, says Zoo Curator Wayne Homan, "if and when Saudi Arabia sets up a game preserve and also educates the population not to kill them...
...wrinkled delicacy known as the truffle has tantalized palates and minds for thousands of years. The ancient Greek Theophrastus believed truffles were a product of thunder. In the Middle Ages they were considered evil things grown from the spit of witches. Later they came to be prized as an aphrodisiac, and Madame de Pompadour fed them to Louis XV. Napoleon, who was having difficulty fathering children, begat his only legitimate son after eating a truffled turkey. He promoted a lieutenant to colonel for having given him the recipe. In 1825, Brillat-Savarin, the savant of haute cuisine, called truffles...
...statement from Mayday women said in part, "All of the fellows seem to have accepted the Elliott Gould concept of 'demonstration as aphrodisiac' and would more readily get a hard-on than try to communicate with one of their sisters...
ADMITTEDLY, this book is not written as a how-to for beginners, and it doesn't stop to explain many things, but it has at least one major omission. While devoting an entire chapter to aphrodisiacs ("There is only one aphrodisiac in this world, and that is love"), she barely mentions birth control. To a generation of women brought up on the Pill and who now have doubts about it, Garrity could have given some helpful opinions about other contraceptive methods which women have been avoiding because they lack effectiveness or spontaneity...