Melts in Your Mouth

What does cobra's blood, urine, placenta, and green M&M's have in common?

They're all believed in some region of the world to be powerful aphrodisiacs, making ordinary men into sexual supermen.

Its a bit of a far cry from avocado, and ginger, but we have to face the fact that we're living in a world where the South China Tiger was nearly hunted into extinction due to the belief that the savoury, delicious testicles of the creature lead to virility and increased fertility. 

Just last year a 35 year old New York man died after ingesting a specific toad venom called, Black Stone, extracted from a dried West Indian reptile.

Little did he realize it's meant to be applied topically, not swallowed, which in a twist of tragic irony, made the venom the only thing that got swallowed that night.

Its an odd subject to research, and, surprisingly, the library, and my other typical forms of nontechnical periodicals were less then forth coming on the subject. There was always Cosmo, but if I wanted to go that way I could just save time it would take to read it all and make it up myself.

Yes, Cosmo makes it all up, humming lightly against a man's elbow will not arouse anyone, they'll just want their arm back from the crazy humming person in their bed.

Thank black Jesus for the internet.

Yes because now people can be informed about how sperm whale bile, or Ambergris, as it was once known, dried toad headed lizard, Fugu, aka puffer fish, buffalo balls, and seemingly every vagina and penis shaped fruit in existence, is going to make you fuck like gangbusters.

Actually the belief that foods like bananas and ginseng root are colloquial with increased sexual libido originated with the thought that anything that looks like a sex organ, must therefore be beneficial to the area it seems to mimic.

The old standard of course is the never fail, sure fire, dependable "Spanish Fly." Which some horny scientist, probably another lonely zoologist (http://questionsex.blogspot.com/2009/08/sexolution-to-disease.html), acutely took some time to prove.

Spanish Fly, as it is known in truck stops and rest areas across North America, is actuality the extract of the small, green cantharides beetle. The chemical stimulates and irritates the whole urinary system. A feeling that some foolish individual might mistake for for arousal. It has been used medically since ancient Greece.

There is a huge expansive list, of common and unusual aphrodisiacs, but many seemed to rely more on speculation and I couldn't confirm a lot of them with a believable source.

Though I did confirm placenta!

Physiologically speaking however, and according to Henry Kissinger, the greatest turn on remains power. Making Hillary Clinton the sexiest woman in the USA.

Needless to say, no matter what's true and what not, we should all eat the green M&M's just before bed.