Ep #4: Ancient Aphrodisiacs: Mad Honey, Spanish Fly & More

From sucking down oysters in wine-soaked Roman symposiums to prehistoric playboys feeding phallic-shaped foods to the objects of their desires, humans have found eccentric ways to set the mood for thousands of years. The ancient practice of using aphrodisiacs to seduce and inspire erotic notions has been around for about as long as we’ve been getting down and dirty.SOURCES:Oxford's Social History of Medicine Volume 29 Issues 4 November 2016, Aphrodisiacs, Fertility and Medicine in Early Modern England by Dr. Jennifer Evans APHRODISIAC Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster  Cleopatra: from turpentine and juniper to ionone and irone - PubMed  The Project Gutenberg eBook of Love Potions Through the Ages, by Harry E. Wedeck  (212) From Myth to Medicine: Aphrodisiacs Through the Ages | The Journal of Sexual Medicine | Oxford Academic Spanish fly Aphrodisiacs in the global history of medical thought | Journal of Global History | Cambridge Core Albert Ellis and Albert Abarbanel in volume 1 of their Encyclopaedia of Sexual Behaviour,Betwixt The Sheets: The Strangest Tudor & Stuart Aphrodisiacs