Tuesday, August 12

Ten Aphrodisiacs

From various countries:

A.D. 900: Sheep's eyelid marinated in hot tea. Chinese emperors were required to keep twenty-one wives, a precise number thought to have magical properties, and the empereor was expected to make love to ten of them every night. A Taoist manual advised that this could be made possible by applying the mixture to the imperial penis.

1400: Pigeon dung and snail excrement [England]

1690: Toad excrement [France]. This method had the royal seal of approval; it was the one successfully employed by King Louis XIV's mistress Madame de Montespan.

1700: Menstrual blood as a food or drink additive [Germany]

1830: Lion testicles or arsenic [London]

1850: Penis and scrotum of a vanquished enemy warrior [Brazillian Cubeo tribe]

1900: Live monkey brains [Malaysia]. Live monkey was forced into a tight container with a bowl fitted to its head, the skull was cut and open and peeled back to reveal the exposed brain, which was then scooped out with a spoon or sucked through a straw.

1943: Animal hormone. To restore Adolf Hitler's impaired virility, his personal physician, Dr. Theodore Morell, injected the Fuhrer with a compound containing hormones from crushed animal genitalia.



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