Word: aphrodisiac
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...this notebook. According to Author McLaughlin, "Insult, not flattery, is the great aphrodisiac." It's good for aphorists...
Zoologist Dieter Matthes of West Germany's Erlangen University has now proved that the males of the Malachiidae, a family of tiny beetles usually found in the tropics, entice the females first with a tarty nectar, then surreptitiously slip them an aphrodisiac to loosen their inhibitions...
While the female nibbles, the male waits patiently until his aphrodisiac has had time to work. Then the male wheels around to test her reactions. If she wags her abdomen vigorously up and down, she is saying no-or at least, not yet. The urgent male gets in front of her again and feeds her more candy. Repeated feedings are sometimes necessary before the aphrodisiac administered with the candy puts her into the proper mating mood...
...Canaletto paintings to Actress Schneider's Coco Chanel clothes. At one point, Pupe manages to wriggle out of these clothes with one hand while telephoning with the other in what is surely one of the more provocative stripteases to be recorded on film. The scene proves a heady aphrodisiac to the count, and they settle on a deal whereby the count can have his wife, instead of a call girl, at $600 a night. In the story's sardonic finale, Pupe tearfully prepares for her "job" as the count waves a check in the bedroom...
...Narayani River. The exotic menu: black partridge, florican crane, wild boar shashlik, shredded venison curry. Then they went after bigger game: a female rhinoceros, spotted plodding through the jungle, calf in tow. Prized by poachers (who grind the horns into a powder that is valued as an alleged aphrodisiac), the one-horned rhino has almost disappeared from Nepal. But Marksman Home was not to be denied. With the help again of Bonham Carter and Adeane, he quickly dispatched the lumbering beast, left its calf to fend for itself in the jungle...