Author: Harry E. Wedeck
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Publisher: Philosophical Library
City: New York
Year: 1961
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Pages: 256
Binding: Hardback
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DICTIONARY OF APHRODISIACS
by HARRY E. WEDECK
by HARRY E. WEDECK
This book is in the nature of a literary and historical survey of aphrodisiacs, their objectives, techniques, and effectiveness. The contents cover world-wide territories, and range from antiquity through the Middle Ages down to the present day. With academic emphasis, they point up the continuous urgency that has driven men in quest of an erotic elixir and a putative panacea, in the form of philtres and unguents, invocations, prescriptions, and mechanistic devices, for their exhausted vigors. Harry E. Wedeck teaches classical literature at Brooklyn College.
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Year: 1961
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Title: Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs
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Publisher: The Citadel Press; New York
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Title: Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs
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Title: Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs
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Title: Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs
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“Casanova lived to a great age. In the end he became a librarian and small boys threw stones at him because he looked so strange.”
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“Cheese
Highly esteemed for its aphrodisiac propensities. Parmesan cheese in particular, in eighteenth century France, was considered highly beneficial in this sense.”
“Musk
A brown, bitter, volatile substance, extracted from a gland near the genitals of the musk-deer and of a species of goat indigenous to Tartary. In Persia and Tibet musk is used in food for its amatory properties.
The odor of musk, according to the Hindu Kama Sutra, is associated with the ideal woman.
One Arab writer comments on the efficacy of perfuming oneself with must as an aid before sexual activity.
In Oriental stories musk often appears as an enticing erotic factor.”
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