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 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: 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: 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: Americas, Global by Richard Alan Miller
Category: Ingredient 1. Origin: Europe, Greece/Mediterranean; Asia, Middle East History: Also know as “Giant Fennel” Technique: physiological; biopsychological; psychological Effect: influences estrogen/progesterone level 2. Origin: Americas, North America History: It was a main ingredient in Lydia Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound for “female complaints” (19th C.) Original formula was as follows: Unicorn root (Aletris farinosa L.) 8 [...]
Category: Individual Origin: Americas, Native American History: no specific dates dates (likely 19th C.) reportedly used by Native American tribes for dysmenorrhea, uterine prolapse, pelvic congestion and to improve ovarian function. Technique: physiological; cultural/myth Effect: improve female dysfunction; influences estrogen/progesterone level Reference: http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/topics/Lydia_Pinkham
Category: Technique 1. Origin: Global History: As Jill Kilbourn observes in Dangerous Persuasions, “Advertising encourages us not only to objectify each other but also to feel that our most significant relationships are with the products that we buy. It turns lovers into things and things into lovers and encourages us to feel passion for our products rather than [...]
Category: Ingredient 1. Origin: Americas History: native to Central America, Mexico, South America, and the Caribbean. named for Saint Damian, patron saint of pharmacists, by the Christian missionary Juan Maria de Salvatierra Technique: Effect: 2. Origin: Americas, Maya History: dates approximate- 200 BC-1600 AD reportedly used by the Maya, called “mis kok” or “x misib kok,” as a [...]
Category: Ingredient Origin: Americas, US History: recent studies, through present day general phallic shape – studies by Dr. Alan Hirsch have found that the scent of cucumber and good-n-plenty candy stimulate vaginal blood flow Technique: psychological; physiological; smell Effect: well-being Reference:
Category: Ingredient Origin: Americas History: present day use (Maya); compiled from reports from healers and personal observation (Arvigo and Balick 1993:47) “for male impotency: boil a 2.5 x 15 cm strip of bark in 3 cups water for 10 minutes and take 1 cup before meals for 7 days. If results are slow, double the strength of the [...]
Category: Ingredient 1. Origin: Americas History: earliest evidence for cacao cultivation and use is from an archaeological site in the coastal plain of Chiapas, Mexico dating between 1800 and 1400 BC (pre-Olmec, “Barra”) also, Puerto Escondido, Honduras, which dates from 1100 to 1400 BC. Technique: Effect: 2. Origin: Americas, Aztec History: Earliest written evidence for use [...]
Category: Ingredient 1. Origin: Americas; Aztec History: Widely used in Aztec culture, and mentioned as an aphrodisiac in the records of Acosta and Hernandez book 3, chapter chili Technique: Cultural/myth; medicinal Effect: well-being 2. Origin: Americas History: widely used in traditional foods, with the earliest record of pepper use comes from archaeological investigations in the Valley of [...]
Category: Ingredient Origin: Americas History: Tupi, indigenious in Brazil, first settled in the Amazon Rainforest around 900 BC; There is a popular saying, “Until a father reaches 60, the son is his; after that, the son is catuaba’s!” often prepared in blended fruit drinks with guarana. other preparations include placing a small handful of bark in a glass of [...]
Category: Ingredient Origin: Americas, US History: present day Formerly called PT-141, bremelanotide is an experimental drug being tested for use as an aphrodisiac by Palatin Technologies in Edison, New Jersey. Bremelanotide is being researched as an aphrodisiac, officially for the treatment of male and female sexual dysfunction. Further use for the treatment of hemorrhagic shock and reperfusion injury is [...]
Category: Ingredient Origin: Americas; South America History: main ingredient in a psychoactive beverage ingested by shamans to heal sickness or induce visions; hallucinogen Technique: Science, physiological, biopsychological, medicinal; Cultural/myth; mind Effect: spiritual protection/significance Reference: http://www.maya- ethnobotanicals.com/buy-aspidosperma- quebracho-%28quebracho%29 Ratsch, Christian Berkeley, CA Ten Speed Press 1997
Category: Ingredient 1. Origin: Americas; Aztec History: 14th-16th century Mesoamerica circa 1500 AD. There is evidence of cultivation as early as 7000-6500 BC. The Aztecs named the tree “ahuacacuauhitl” which translates as “tecticle tree”. Techinque: Effect: 2. Origin: Americas, Latin America, Caribbean History: As recorded by Dampier, 1906, I:223 “This Fruit [the avocado] hath no taste [...]
Category: Ingredient Origin: Americas; Aztec History: 1400-1600 An aphrodisiac chocolate herb beverage described in an Aztec Materia Medica compiled and written by the spanish royal physician Francisco Hernandez Technique: Effect: stimulant Reference:
Category: Ingredient 1. Origin: Europe; Ancient Rome History: Pliny the Elder, ”Natural History” 28.261-62. 77-79 AD. Chapter 80 – Stimulants for the Sexual Passions “Among the aphrodisiacs, we find mentioned…the dried testes of a horse, pulverized and mixed with the drink. The right testicle, also, of an ass, is taken in a proportionate quantity of wine, or worn attached [...]