Word: aphrodisiac
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...alas, are we. Turns out that Aphrodite (Venus to you Romans) was not Ms. Clean at all but the Goddess of Naughty Sex. It is she we can thank for most + of mankind's sexual problems, and chief among these is our obsession with her elusive elixir, the aphrodisiac...
...incident, in which at least two wardens were wounded, was the latest skirmish in a war that has pitted a growing army of rhino and elephant poachers against an outgunned force of rangers and police. The lure for poachers is great: prized in Asia as an aphrodisiac and in Yemen for making dagger handles, a single rhino horn can fetch as much...
...most countries, but an illicit $3 million-a-year trade flourishes in the Middle East and eastern Asia, where dealers pay $450 per lb. wholesale for the stuff. (One large animal can yield 10 lbs. of horn.) It is a myth that the horn is used as an aphrodisiac. In the Far East it is ground into traditional medicines that supposedly reduce fever and stop nosebleeds. It is also coveted in North Yemen, where it is carved into dagger handles that sell for $500 to $12,000 or more...
Doctors warn that it is not an aphrodisiac or a "sex pill." But a drug developed by Burroughs Wellcome to treat depression does have an interesting side effect: it increases sexual desire. Of 60 test subjects who took Wellbutrin at San Diego's Crenshaw Clinic, 63% had heightened libidos, a study reports this week. The effects of the drug, which is not on the market, were felt only by the sexually dysfunctional and were not always welcome. "One woman was orgasmic for the first time," says Researcher Theresa Crenshaw. "She said she was assailed by sexual feelings...
...left-wing lawyer who defends brutish killers as victims of the pig establishment and has a mouth like a Kalashnikov on full automatic. Recalls Broderick: "Bed was where she held forth on genocide and Yanqui imperialism and racism and political prisoners and Amerika with a k, each topic an aphrodisiac in itself. There was seldom any postcoital tristesse...