Word: aphrodisiacal
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...sings passionate love to the donkey-headed weaver Bottom. She and her husband, Oberon, have fallen out because Tytania refuses to surrender her favorite page-boy to him. The vengeful Oberon schemes as Tytania sleeps unaware on a flowery river bank. He sends Puck in search of an aphrodisiac flower which will make the Queen fall in love with the first creature she sees on waking. The result is just what the fairy king Oberon had hoped for. Tytania espies Bottom (J. Scott Brummitt), whom Puck has given an ass's head. She immediately decides that they could have...
...Gordon, solemnly asserted a century ago that the Garden of Eden was located in the Seychelles, though there are no serpents there. Gordon argued that Eve's gift to Adam was no apple but a coco de mer, an indigenous, double-barreled 40-lb. nut, reputed to have aphrodisiac powers...
...because of her candor. Young men and women all over India claim that it is the swinging lives of the stars that are suddenly making them much less hesitant about jumping into bed with each other. Indian Essayist Nirad C. Chaudhuri charges India's cinema with being the "aphrodisiac" responsible for his country's exploding population, which seems slightly unfair, since the birth rate was soaring long before movies...
...capital where sex is easily available, indiscretions are winked at and power is the ultimate aphrodisiac, the big question was whether a number of Congressmen had put pliant young women on their payrolls purely (or impurely) for personal pleasure. Mere hanky-panky would hardly be criminal, but disclosures of it would be poison at the polls. Worse, sex at taxpayers' expense can lead to charges of fraud...
...sugar, grisly exhumations and a band of rollicking adults who vomit, defecate and urinate on one another to the strains of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony. The director, Dusan Makav?jev, professes to see the film as socially beneficial. Says he: "It is meant to have a lasting aphrodisiac effect and generally tone up the orgasm...