Through the ages, probably as far back as cave men, food and sex have been connected in our minds. Even if we say we don’t believe in aphrodisiacs, there’s always a thought in the backs of our minds that *maybe* there’s something to it.
I have a personal blog called Orgasmic Chef so obviously I believe food and sex have a lot in common but I’m not alone in getting excited about food.
People get turned on by three categories of food: very very expensive food, food that is very risky to obtain and food that looks like male and female genitalia. We know the Spanish conquistadors were taught to drink hot chocolate by Aztec concubines, but did you know that when they brought that chocolate back to Spain, they brought the story that it was an aphrodisiac.
When rice was still a luxury in Europe, people swore that rice boiled in milk and flavored with cinnamon could turn on the coldest women in town. Once a food gets “common” it loses its aphrodisiac magic.
Think of sweet potatoes which were a huge hit when they first arrived in Europe. Nobody would get excited just thinking about eating them now. Not even for Thanksgiving.
The vanilla pod could be seen to resemble female genitalia and when it first arrived in Europe it was given the name vanilla because it sounded like vagina. It was assumed that any man or woman who ate vanilla flavored anything would be instantly transformed into a hot lover.
In 19th century America there were underground “oyster saloons” while having fun with good time girls and hookers. Several decades later there was a striptease act called “the oyster dance.” Even Elvis’s cousin Kitty West danced on Bourbon Street in New Orleans as “Evangeline the Oyster Girl”.
Now take food and sex out of the seedier side of life and we see food as a part of every celebration – seriously even Eve talked Adam into eating the apple. The Bible has quite a few messages about food and the bedroom. In Solomon’s Song for instance there are references to aphrodisiacs of the time — cinnamon, saffron, figs and pomegranates.
Food scientists and researchers tell us that there is NO food that acts like Viagra, however it’s been proven that chocolate and oysters DO give us a sexy hormone rush – but you’d have to eat a plate the size of a sandbox. So IS the true aphrodisiac as unlikely as finding a pot of gold at the end of a rainbow?
Nah, aphrodisiacs work because we want them to work. They make us feel special and important and hey, that’s a turn-on for most of us. What’s your favorite food that puts YOU in the mood?
I was talking with a woman who chats regularly on SexyAds about what makes a man sexy to her. She laughed and said that she was married to a man who didn’t give her what she needed so maybe she wasn’t the person to ask. I asked again and she said that the sexiest men she’s come across at SexyAds in the forums and in the chatroom were men who wanted to make friends first. I thought it was a bit odd until she continued.
You read article after article about what aphrodisiac works best to get a woman in the mood. Well, finally, a man has figured out the way to a woman’s heart.
