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Tony's Secret Cabinet
Aphrodisiac Attack
A Valentine's Day special on sparrows, eggs, and ticks.
By Tony Perrottet
The Christian feast of Saint Valentine, February 14, was first
associated with romance in the Middle Ages - possibly because it was
near the official start of spring and the beginning of the birds'
mating season -- and by the mid-1800s, it had begun evolving into the
big business of chocolates, candies, and candle-lit dinners we know
today. But the idea that certain culinary delicacies are conducive to
love dates back far earlier, to the ancient Greeks -- although their
criteria for aphrodisiac food was either its physical appearance, a
powerful odor, or some symbolic, philosophical property.
The goddess of love Aphrodite (the Roman Venus), had emerged from the
sea, so Greek thinkers reasoned that erotic potions should be
concocted from seafood; even in the 18th century, it was believed that
the Lenten diet of fish made people more lecherous. The oyster was
considered especially arousing because of its vulva-esque appearance,
while phallic-looking gourds were, not surprisingly, significant. Eggs
of all kinds were thought by association to promote potency and
fertility. Sparrows were seen to mate madly for hours on end, so were
devoured by the dozen, as were the "lascivious" mullets.
From the earliest times, it was believed that consuming sexual fluids
in meals would create a magical bond between lovers. Greek women would
bake their secretions into honey cakes for the men they admired. The
Roman scientist Pliny the Elder argued that excrement was also a
powerful aphrodisiac and should be slipped into meals, a
recommendation that continued throughout the Renaissance: In 1552,
Nostradamus included "oil of faeces" as an ingredient for a love
potion. (The Romans had no shortage of odd tips: A graffito found in
the baths of Pompeii suggests rubbing a tick taken from a dead dog on
your genitals to inspire sexual desire, and "you will marvel at the
results.")
Even by the Enlightenment, there was no abatement of folksy
aphrodisiac experiments. The French king Louis XV and his lover the
Madame de Pompidour ate rams' testicles in the Palace of Versailles
before nights of passion. Years later, when the Madame's beauty was
fading, she resorted to a diet of sexually-shaped vegetables such as
truffles and celery, as well as desserts scented with the vaguely
vaginal vanilla. (Evidently the results were disappointing, and the
Madame finally confessed to Louis that she had never had much interest
in sex. Undaunted, Louis set up his own brothel at Versailles called
the Parc-aux-Cerfs, filled with girls between the ages of 9 and 18,
but continued to meet with his former lover: Instead of forcing down
plates full of truffles, they read together the titillating reports of
the Parisian vice squad that chronicled the more baroque perversions
of the French aristocracy).
The Enlightenment also saw a revival of interest in the ancient remedy
known as "Spanish fly" - a powder made from dried, ground green
blister beetles. The beetles contain the chemical cantharidin, which
when ingested, cause the genitals to tingle and swell, which was
mistaken for sexual arousal. Unfortunately, cantharidin is also a
poison and can cause kidney malfunction or internal hemorrhaging if
consumed in large quantities - as the Marquis de Sade found in 1772,
when he plied two prostitutes with large quantities of aniseed sweets
laced with Spanish fly and saw them collapse in agony, clutching their
stomachs and vomiting. The exasperated Sade was charged with attempted
murder and forced to flee France, mystified at what all the fuss was
about. * 22 January 2008
SOURCE/FURTHER READING: Hospodar, Miriam, "Aphrodisiac Foods: Bringing
Heaven to Earth," Gastronomica, vol. 4, no. 4, 2004, 80-93.
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Tony Perrottet is the author of Pagan Holiday: On the Trail of Ancient
Roman Tourists and The Naked Olympics: The True Story of the Ancient
Games. Tony's Secret Cabinet is a series of historical anecdotes from
his forthcoming book Napoleon's Privates: 2500 Years of History
Unzipped (to be published by William Morrow in summer 2008).
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