Origin: Audio Recording, United States, Available through internet. History: Swell Audio is a recording group that provides a variety of cd’s with stimulating sounds as well as compilations of recordings of sexual acts, and dialogue on orientation, technique etc. Technique: Cognitive response. Sensual audio. Effect: Subjective, arousing, trigger physical memories through sound Reference: http://www.swellaudio.com/index.htm
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: 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: Equipment Origin: Europe History: A medical theory in which Renaissance and Baroque physicians put great stock was the Doctrine of Signatures: the premise was that after Adam and Eve were expelled from the Garden of Eden and humankind began to experience diseases, God mercifully gave each plant a visible sign, usually in the form of a resemblance [...]
Category: Equipment Origin: History: images taken from John French’s The Art of Distillation provide us with what may be considered the key interaction within alchemy. The use of tinctures and repetitive condensing and distilling until a pure clear liquid is achieved is the process for the creation of many medicines not to exclude aphrodisiacs Type: Device; Metal?? Technique: manual; [...]
Origin: Europe; Asia History: Consider the Communal aspects of PUNCH: In 1750 one Dr Short, “a physician of great ability and repute”, declared with the sort of swelling effusion one might associate with a person newly refreshed: “Punch is an admirable liquor – the best liquor in the world. The universe cannot afford a better liquor for [...]