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Aphrodisiacs? Search This Medieval Islamic Encyclopedia
- M_Grey 10y agoI have an idea that any sufficiently large volume of general knowledge, will contain supposed aphrodisiacs. The corollary is that any mysticism around food or drinks will conclude that virtually everything is an aphrodisiac.
- TazeTSchnitzel 10y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Aphrodisiacs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Aphrodisiacs
- ramgorur 10y agothe first statement is obvious, isn't it? replace the aphrodisiacs with anything, like 'hammer', it still holds. the second one is interesting, but I didn't quite get how this can be deduced from the first statement.
- M_Grey 10y agoConsidering that aphrodisiacs don't exist, and hammers have for thousands of years, I see a small difference.
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- duaneb 10y ago> Considering that aphrodisiacs don't exist What do you mean? You're denying the existence of a) libido, b) drugs, or c) the effect of drugs on libido. Could you elaborate? None of the above statements strikes me as true.
- M_Grey 10y agoC... obviously, since neither A nor B fit the definition of "Aphrodisiacs". There are no drugs that I'm aware of which increase sexual desire, can you name some?
- thomyorkie 10y agoAnecdotally, I've noticed a consistent marked increase in my sexual desire from eating certain things. Cayenne pepper, ginger root, garlic, and in particular tongkat ali. I naturally have a very high sex drive so perhaps I'm more susceptible than most.
- M_Grey 10y agoThe problem with anecdotes in this case is that the libido fluctuates a lot anyway, and a sample size of "1 person" is just not going to tell us much. To the best of anyone's ability to rigorously test though, there are no aphrodisiacs. That should honestly make sense, since if there were any, they would be the subject of intense scrutiny and attempts to synthesize a version you could stick in a pill; it would be a gold mine like no other.
- im3w1l 10y ago> sample size of "1 person" There are a few different problems here which should not be confused with each other. 1. Variance. This is what people normally talk about when they talk about sample size. Maybe thomyorkie just happened to randomly be horny in those specific instances? If they tried it sufficiently many times that would give a high sample size and eliminate variance problems. 2. Blinding / placebo. Maybe believing that they will be horny causes them to be horny. 3. Representativeness. Maybe thomyorkie just works in their own way and the results wont generalize to other people.
- thomyorkie 10y agoIt appears there are indeed drugs that have libido enhancing qualities. These include bremelanotide, and phenethylamines https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aphrodisiac https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aphrodisiac
- psyc 10y agoIs there a firewall that prevents ingested chemicals from affecting the chemicals that affect libido?
- amelius 10y agoYes, I guess the blood-brain-barrier, because 99% of sex happens in the brain.
- altendo 10y ago> In whittling down al-Nuwayri’s opus, his selections skew to the crowd-pleasing. Large chunks of history (which made up the bulk of the original text) and scribal etiquette are jettisoned, while the heart of the translation consists of marvelous chapters on wildlife (“mute beasts”), botany and “sexual medicines.” I'm a little disappointed by this. I understand the need to abridge it, but to skew towards the "crowd-pleasing" is a bit much. Maybe it's just me but I'd have rather had things more proportionally represented (ie have some more history!). From the sound of it, every part of this has its own wonder, and I'd rather the translation reflect that.
- samer66 10y agoThe original is open source (in Arabic) https://archive.org/details/waq66201 https://archive.org/details/waq66201