Word: aphrodisiac
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...under a new law which permits prosecution of a book rather than a bookseller. Most interesting exhibit: a realistic, life-size photographic cut-out of sexy Authoress Kathleen Winsor. Though the prosecutor thundered, the judge, a man of 65, averred: "The book acts like a soporific rather than an aphrodisiac. While conducive to sleep it is not conducive to a desire to sleep with a member of the opposite sex." His verdict: Not guilty...
Duel in the Sun (David O. Selznick; Vanguard) is a knowing blend of oats and aphrodisiac. It is the costliest, the most lushly Technicolored, the most lavishly cast, the loudest ballyhooed, and the sexiest horse opera ever made...
...Shocking Miss Pilgrim" is guaranteed shockproof, but if you feel in the need of a mild aphrodisiac and like Betty Grable decollate, you could probably do worse than see the source of all this Boston-baiting publicity...
...lengthen in Sana men, women & children gather in the courtyards for the daily ritual and recreation-the chewing of the qat. They squat about brass spittoons (in the better homes) and tear the leaves of Catha edulis fresh from the stems. Some travelers have said that qat is an aphrodisiac, but a Yemenite philosopher has set the world straight on that point. "It brings rest to the body and ease to the mind," he wrote, "which cannot be achieved in any other way, save, of course, through religion. It does not encourage eroticism-on the contrary...
...Love Lite"-a small boudoir lamp that exudes an aphrodisiac fragrance...