Category: Ingredient 1. Origin: Asia, Middle East, India History: 5000-2300 BC Sumerian cuneiform writings The Courtship of Inanna and Dumuzi “Bridegroom, let me caress you, My precious caress is more savory than honey, In the bedchamber, honey filled, Let us enjoy your goodly beauty, Lion, let me caress you, My precious caress is more savory [...]
Category: Ingredient 1. Origin: Africa, Uganda History: no specific dates to treat “sexual impotence and erectile dysfunction, leaves of Cannabis sativa, to chew VO[taken orally]. or to smoke, inhaling fumes” vernacular name: njayi ( Luganda), njaga (Runyankore), mbangi (Swahili) Technique: cultural/myth Effect: cure impotence; erectile dysfunction 2. Origin: Asia History: no specific dates earliest mention [...]
Category: Ingredient Origin: Americas; Brazil History: First written mention dates to 1669 in an observation by the Jesuit Joao Felipe Bettendorff who identifies the Satere-Maue as the original cultivators Cultivation estimated to have begun c. 1200 AD. Significant in the origin myth of the Satere-Maue due to resemblace of guarana fruit to eyeballs. More recently in [...]
Category: Ingredient 1. Origin: Asia, Europe History: also known as “Artic root,” “Rose root” and “Hong Jing Tian” Technical: Effect: 2. Origin: ASia, Europe (Siberia) History: no specific dates- present day in mountain villages of the Caucasus and Altai mountains, a bouquet of roots is given to newlywed couples to ensure fertility and the birth of healthy [...]
Category: Ingredient 1. Origin: Asia History: The first written record of its use as a medicinal agent, although not necessarily an aphrodisiac, appears in Shennong Bencao Jing (Classic Herbal of Shennong), written around 100 A.D Ginseng was so valuable in ancient China that the Qing Dynasty rose to power in the mid-sixteenth century supported by money [...]
Category: Ingredient Origin: Asia History: a “living fossil,” existing essentially unchanged for 270 million years.The oldest native tree populations are in Asia, specifically China and Japan; also known as the “Maidenhair tree.” Technique: cultural/myth; medicinal Effect: promotes blood flow/supports erection; anti-aging Reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ginkgo_biloba#Medicinal_uses Ratsch, Christian Berkeley, CA Ten Speed Press 1997 Nickell, Nancy L. California The Crossing Press [...]
Category: Ingredient 1. Origin: Europe, Italy, France History: Mentioned in the Salerno Book of Health (Salerno Sanitatis Salernitanum), written by faculty at the Salernum. The earliest Italian Medical school in Salerno, it incorporated elements of Classical, Jewish, and Arab medicine. “Within the stomach, loins, and in the lung Praise of hot ginger rightly may be sung. It [...]
Category: Ingredient 1. Origin: Africa, Uganda History: no dates specified to treat “sexual impotence and erectile dysfunction, stem, bulb, leaves, roots of Allium sativum, to chew, to cook, VO[taken orally] in H2O and in in food” vernacular name: tungurusumu (Rukonjo) Technique: cultural/myth; medicinal Effect: cure impotence and erectile dysfunction 2. Origin: Asia, India History: An Indian [...]
Category: Ingredient 1. Origin: Asia, Middle East History:listed as lead ingredient to cure impotence, Nefzawi wrote: “To cure the tying of aiguillettes you must take galanga, cinnamon from Mecca, cloves, Indian cachou, nutmeg, Indian cubebs, sparrow-wort, cinnamon, Persian pepper, Indian thistle, cardamoms, pyrether, laurel-seed, and gilly-flowers. All these ingredients must be pounded together carefully, and one drinks of [...]
Category: Equipment Origin: Gobal; Americas History: A Female’s Biological Clock as Aphrodisiac: women’s interest in sex peaks between age 27 and 45. A research team led by psychologist Judith Easton of the University of Texas at Austin concludes this is an unconscious reaction to declining fertility Compared to older or younger women, RE women are more willing [...]
Category: Equipment Origin: Europe FORM Phallus as symbol HISTORY Greeks: celebrated it = statues, gymnastic contests, etc Vs Romans = shame “Shame begins with public nakedness” (Ennius) FORM Consider semblance Technique: Lacan’s theories of “Desire of the Other” Phallus as signifier. The penis is always inferior to the phallus as the phallus is a power [...]
Category: Equipment Origin: Americas Why Cucumbers Are Better Than Men by The Cucumber Group
Category: Equipment Origin: Americas, North America The Joy of Sex by Alex Comfort A modern sexual manual written in the framework of a cookbook I.e. “the joy of cooking”
Category: Equipment Origin: Asia The oldest known sex manual, the first-century classic
Category: equipment Origin: Americas, Global by Richard Alan Miller
Category: Equipment Origin: Asia History: Vatsyayana’s Kama Sutra is compiled into its modern form. The last verses touch on the different aphrodisiacs that can be employed in lovemaking. Kama Sutra, the famed fourth- century Indian sex manual, states, “Even if one manages to subjugate someone, but is unable to consummate the relationship, there will be no [...]
Category: Equipment Origin: Asia History: Islamic sex manual, The Perfumed Garden, ca. 1410–1434, contains many aphrodisiac recipes for use by married men.
Category: Ingredient 1. Origin: Europe, Greek History: “Aphrodisiac” was derived from the name of the Greek goddess of love and sexuality, and Aphrodite rose from the foam surrounding the genitals of Kronos’s father, which had been severed and cast upon the waters. Technique: Cultural/myth Effect: 2. Origin: Europe History: Darwian perspective that fish are the source of all [...]
Category: Equipment Origin: Europe, Rome History: Nero’s Golden House: scented dining room that rained down roses and scented water Technique: cultural/myth; smell Effect: Reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domus_Aurea
Category: Ingredient 1. Origin: Asia, Middle East History: 300 BC to the 200 AD Heavily traded along Incense Road Technique: Commodity/luxury Effect: 2. Origin: Asia, Middle East History: c. 10 C. BC The Queen of Sheba used Frankincese and Myrrh to seduce King Solomon and secure the freedom in incense road. Technique: cultural/myth; smell; commodity/luxury Effect: [...]