Word: aphrodisiacal
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Many women consider cocaine an aphrodisiac. Says Ronald Siegel, a psychopharmacologist at the U.C.L.A. School of Medicine: "Women respond more euphorically and ecstatically than males to sex with coke and rate their sexual experiences with cocaine much higher than males do." Others in the drug field, however, say that such a response occurs among highly suggestible people and is mostly a placebo effect...
...made a film for, and about, the over-the-hill gang. The central character of Reuben, Reuben is a poet, someone for whom words and even the occasional idea matter. For Gowan Evans McGland (Tom Conti), the English language is a weapon to be used against fools, an aphrodisiac with which to ply faculty wives, and a solace whenever thoughts of suicide dance in his head. Still, words give Gowan problems. His rampant eloquence can prove an embarrassment, as when one avid matron removes her brassiere and Gowan offers this verbal foreplay: "Released from their support, her breasts drooped like...
...pollen mixed with caviar has been the only aphrodisiac successful in curing Rajah's coupling problems. Kerr explained. Currently, be pollen is in high demand in Toronto, so Kerr came to Boston to fill a $100,000 order with Frederick C. Kulow '47. President of Bee Pollen from England...
Enthusiasts of the drug commonly use images of sex to describe its short-lived supercharge. Says the former Oregon M.D.: "It was so intense, so sexual. In fact, it beats sex all to hell." Among dabblers, cocaine can be a powerful, sharp-edged aphrodisiac. But for most overusers, love-making tends finally to pall...
Guide's mistress (Anita Morris), torridly voluptuous in body-hugging see-through lace, is another stereonought. As she flaunts her breasts and wiggles her derriere, she disintegrates into a burlesque of female sexuality. The evening's most potent aphrodisiac is Montevecchi's display of her wares and her wiles in a number called Folies Bergeres...