erotic content, he left a legacy worthy of entering into the Guinness Book of Records a list of debts on claims for paternity. And the dapper Frenchman Guy de Maupassant, having written a huge amount of prose, could be proud of his sexual adventures no less than literary masterpieces. On the account of our contemporary Georges Si-Menon, not only more than five hundred novels, eighty of which are devoted to Inspector Maigret, but, according to rumor, more than ten thousand novels with women. And the idol of several generations Ernest Hemingway was also not a small miss ... And this list is endless, perhaps.
So everyone is doing it! But so far we have only mentioned those who are more than confident in themselves, who sometimes even took drugs that lower their potency, in order to somehow curb sex drive, which strikes over the edge.
“With the help of the root, oh husband, you will gain
you are vigilant in your gaze.
Passion in men reduces it ...
Makes the root temperate
and the mind is clear and quick. ”
- recommended in such a situation the ancient healers.
However, people who doubted their attractiveness or sexual abilities have long been looking for drugs that arouse desire. In ancient times, drinks of this kind were dedicated to the goddess of love Aphrodite, hence the name Aphrodisiacs. And what is interesting - the peak of the heyday of making love drinks falls on the ascetic Middle Ages. “Cocktails” were intricate (a mixture of panther saliva, bat feces, crocodile sperm, frog’s womb and various plants, for example), were to guarantee a desire. But surprisingly, some of them really aroused a feeling, though not always to the "grave plaque", as intended.
As times passed, mores changed. Instead of dubious “mouth-watering” compositions, people began to stimulate themselves with culinary delights. Love orgies are now accompanied by gastronomic orgies. Louis XIV, king of France and a model of male beauty of the 17th century, an imposing arrogant man with delicate features, blond hair and a melodious voice, a clever hunter, rider and dancer, gallant in dealing with ladies, the “radiant king”, as he recognized himself, Naturally, he did not pretend to be a holy man. So he was a real glutton.At royal dinners, four or six varieties of poultry were served, three or four fish dishes, up to eight meat dishes, game, a dozen different cakes, not counting all kinds of snacks ... And although he also realized that an excess of dishes extinguishes a love fire, at least eat without measure.
Sometimes gluttony completely replaced sex! The tumultuous erotic life of the Marquis de Sade went down in history. However, he had to spend ten years in the Bastille, and in order to survive this difficult period of forced abstinence, with the persistence of a maniac, he began to overeat. Ten kilograms of food was brought to prison by his caring wife every day.
Crowded stomach, gluttony - only a hindrance to love, decided later. This disturbs mental balance, burdens the mind. And it was considered a big mistake before a love date to abuse a steak or cakes. Moderation in food, encouraged by Aphrodite, is one of the subtleties that a discerning lover needs to know. But do not rush to reject food in this situation at all. Since ancient times, people have discovered in food and plants properties that arouse sensuality. And although every nation and every historical era preferred its Afro-diziaki, everyone necessarily emphasized the virtues of frutti di mare - the fruits of the sea. One of the doctors of the last century wrote: “Fish and all other seafood (crayfish, spiny lobsters, sepia, oysters, shark meat) are considered strong love stimulants. It is known that residents of coastal regions and lovers of fish dishes in general have large offspring. ” The explanation should be sought in the high content of phosphorus - a substance that is part of human hormones and, as science confirms, enhances potency. In addition, they contain zinc, which relieves depression, strengthens strength and strengthens desire. Let's try the most affordable.
Squid salad
Take a jar of canned squid, cut them into small cubes, add peeled and finely chopped pickled cucumber, onion, parsley and mix with three tablespoons of sour cream or a spoon of mayonnaise, sprinkle with pepper. We put everything in a salad bowl, decorate with cool egg rings and greens.
Spiny lobsters
If we want something more sophisticated, we will taste lobsters. Their tail is the back of the body, which contains very thin and tasty meat. They are usually sold frozen. Immerse spiny lobsters in clear boiling water. When they take a red tint, turn off the stove and leave the pan with lobsters on it for 12 minutes. Then rinse with cold water, get meat. It is good to sprinkle with lemon juice and serve with a side dish. Cooked asparagus stalks and stewed champignons or porcini mushrooms are a great side dish to this dish.
The legendary Queen of Sheba is mentioned in historical sources only as the most loving, most mysterious, beautiful and smart woman. She conquered both ordinary mortals and kings. This despite the far from perfect figure and curved hairy legs. The wise king Solomon also could not resist the charms of a black seducer. And when, having played enough of Solomon’s feelings, the queen returned to her homeland, he decided to unravel the secret of the Queen of Sheba’s power over men. Numerous bubbles and bottles with grindings, powders and liquids remained in the queen's chambers. And he managed to solve the recipes of several love and love powders.
That evening, when the careless Solomon signed a paper recognizing his heirs as possible children of the Queen of Sheba, she fed him a salad of dates, avocados, watermelon with the addition of various herbs. From now on, Solomon strictly forbade serving such salads to himself before making important political decisions. And he was absolutely right!
The queen was preparing and exciting drinks that made her so desired. One of the drinks, intended specifically for the wise king Solomon, was called “Solomon”:
Pour two tablespoons of cognac into hot water, add a teaspoon of dried raspberry leaves, dried marigold flowers, rosehip leaves and a little caraway seeds.Bring the liquid to a boil and immediately remove from heat. Leave the broth for about twenty minutes. Then strain, add more cognac or strong wine and immediately serve the chosen one warm. The thicker remaining after the broth is finely chopped, mixed with an equal amount of honey and served instead of jam.
“Support me with wine, refresh me with apples, for I am exhausted from love” - this is said in the “Song of Solomon's Song” dated to the 10th century. BC.
Skillfully made drinks relieve fatigue, create a light erotic mood. The ancients believed that "Venus feels lonely without Bacchus and Ceres." Alcohol helps overcome and embarrassment. But Shakespeare was also right, referring to dinner, abundantly irrigated: "alcohol always increases strength, but weakens performance." Hence the advice: go for it, fantasize ... in moderation. And first, meet your beloved or beloved, well, at least with this:
Grog "Dream"
Mix a glass of dry red wine with a shredded juniper twig (which, incidentally, is considered to act directly on “desire”) and warm up to eighty degrees, insist in a water bath for a quarter of an hour so that the juniper aromatic substances turn into wine. Strain the solution and mix with half a glass of rum or brandy, add a slice of sugar, mix, heat and pour into tall thin-walled glasses. Drink grog certainly hot. It is especially magnificent if the meeting is to be in winter, when a blizzard blows outside the window, or in the dank autumn slushy season.
Only fruit is served to the grog. And so, naturally, there should not be any smoked meats and pickles.
"Elixir of love"
A great addition to a night of love and joy and a coffee drink with herbs.
Mix a tablespoon of ground coffee with a teaspoon of dried leaves of oregano and half a spoonful of chopped dried leaves of lemongrass. Pour all this with a glass of hot water and, slowly stirring, bring to a boil, then immediately remove from heat and insist for five minutes. Strain, slightly sweeten with sugar.
The next two drinks can become a little secret of a woman. The first one is called
"Women's Secret"
In high thin-walled glasses, put pieces of ice, pour a glass of chilled mineral water, then a tablespoon of fruit syrup mixed with half a glass of brandy or rum, and immediately serve it to your lover.
Erotic drink "Unbridled goddess"
Dry chamomile pharmacy, nettle, raspberry leaves - all in equal amounts, pour a glass of hot water, bring to a boil, leave to brew for twenty-thirty minutes. After this, strain, mix with half a glass of white wine or grape juice, add a teaspoon of honey. Serve warm.
If you skillfully make these drinks, you will soon see that you tried not in vain!
There are various chemical preparations aphrodisiacs “for love”. However, not everyone can afford them, and they must be handled with care. Frequent use of them can cause ulceration of the esophagus and even perforation of the stomach. It’s better to reinforce the shaken forces with herbs. There are many useful in such cases in nature. Some of them are considered stimulating, others have a direct effect. We have already mentioned some of them above.
Cornflower, bay leaf, thyme, rosemary, sage, dill, mint, oats - are among the first. Cloves and St. John's wort inflame love, which can be used only from autumn to spring, since exposure to the sun after taking a decoction from St. John's wort threatens allergies and even a blow. Some caution is also necessary when using other plants. “Grass, which is of great use in human weaknesses,” says one of the old recommendations, “is a cornflower.” From time immemorial, it was added to a variety of love drinks, and the tomatoes sprinkled with it were called "apples of love." But the same source warns that "he burns passion only in women, while in men, on the contrary, it quenches desire."
Another feature is another aphrodisiac - gladiolus.He, as you know, has two bulbs sitting one above the other. So, it is noticed that if you eat the upper onion with wine, it will enhance sexual potency, and if you eat the lower one, the opposite effect will occur - it will suppress. So a very small mistake can be fatal.
The French, these recognized subtle connoisseurs of love, claim that thyme is especially good in combination with rabbit meat, which you can believe. Thyme broth is good to splash into the bath: a ten-minute bath in a warm bath relieves men’s fatigue and is very exciting, and a woman smelling of freshness? Here you have a delicious aphrodisiac - a simple weed thyme!
Another French invention is cinnamon wine: 60 g of cinnamon and 30 g of vanilla are poured with a liter of good wine and allowed to brew for two weeks. Cinnamon excites, relieves fatigue, strengthens the heart.
But cinnamon, like ginger and juniper, are already directly affected by “desire”. The authorship of the ginger drink belongs to the Arabs. A teaspoon of ginger should be boiled in half a liter of water for ten minutes, and then add a spoonful of honey. Drink the drink slowly, in small sips.
A medieval source reads: “There is an opinion that saffron gives both joy and vitality; he pours strength into members ... ”The frescoes of the Knossos Palace, built on the island of Crete four millennia ago, depict young men picking saffron flowers and girls with saffron wreaths on their heads. Saffron was then credited with the ability to arouse fun and it cost much more than gold. Indeed, in order to collect a kilogram of the finished product, it is necessary to pick and process manually about two hundred thousand freshly blossomed flowers. But just take it a little, and the dish will turn golden. Add it to fish soup, to stewed fish or to sauce with snails. For a saffron drink, two stigmas of its flower are enough for three liters of water to acquire a wonderful color and taste.
But Madame de Pompadour, in order to get excited, drank a cup of hot chocolate with celery and fragrant ambergris. Celery soup fed the Marquise and Louis XV. The result, we know, was brilliant with fieri and numerous lovers, she remained for him the most coveted. And no wonder. Scientists have proven that celery rejuvenates and stimulates the work of the gonads and is now recommended by doctors to juice it to stimulate the central nervous system in case of impotence. Juice can be used independently up to 100 g or combined with other vegetables and fruit juices, optionally adding honey, sour cream, milk or yogurt. From time immemorial, he was part of many erotic potions. But juices are juices, but it would be nice to try and ...
“Soup for Louis XV”
Cut celery into small pieces, boil. Put boiled celery in a pan, add a little oil, fry flour. Add the yolk and nutmeg. Serve with broth.
French celery salad
Peel fifty grams of celery root and cut into small strips. We mix two tablespoons of sour cream or cream with the same amount of mayonnaise and mustard to taste. The resulting mixture season celery. Before serving, let’s keep the lettuce half an hour in the refrigerator. Garnish with a leaf of the same celery and a circle of cool egg.
By the way, it must be taken into account that all sharp seasonings irritate the genitourinary tract, and this causes an increased blood flow, which affects sexual activity. And such a sauce, for example, recommended by gourmets of antiquity, can turn out to be very piquant and very useful, since it will complement a meat dish:
“Salt and sage, garlic and wine, pepper.
If you mix as it should, then the sauce will turn out spicy. ”
In the Renaissance, papal sauce was prepared. Added to rice or pasta, he literally worked wonders. Take a chance?
"Papal Sauce"
Two or three slices of veal, several slices of finely chopped ham, a teaspoon of butter, finely chopped onions, carrots, celery and parsley are put in the pan. Add a tablespoon of white wine, broth, clove of garlic, cloves and lemon peel. The mixture is boiled over low heat. The resulting sauce is filtered, greens are added.
How many people, so many tastes ... "Some people recommend consuming thyme, but it can only harm the body, and besides it is poisonous, - unlike the fellow poet Martial, the ancient Roman poet Ovid believed:" The goddess of love does not give joy to those who resorts to self-violence and love. It’s best to take an ordinary bulb and grass that grows in your garden and eat them with honey and chicken eggs ... ”- he advised.
The grass that Ovid mentioned was mustard, revered by the Romans as the strongest stimulant of love, and by bulb was meant a subspecies of red onion growing on the Apennines. Locals claimed that fried eggs with red onions are able to inspire even an old man to love.
“In order to be successful in intimate relationships, it’s useful to eat an egg yolk daily or eat onions and eggs for three days in a row, and then you yourself will be amazed at the strength and imagination that has appeared in you,” is written in the cookbook of the XV century. And in the famous treatise by Sheikh Eafeauli, “The Art of Arab Love,” the newlyweds are advised: a few days before the wedding, switch to a diet that includes only stewed onions and egg yolks. The well-known Indian book on the technique of love, the Kama Sutra, recommends that before a love meeting, bite a dish of rice cooked in milk, passerine eggs, stewed onions and honey.
The French king Henry IV, far from holy, drank a glass of brandy every morning, mixed with the same yolk. And the Celts, known not only for their belligerence, but also for passion, drank dark beer with egg yolk.
Due to its smell, onions and garlic do not hurt with love frenzy because of their smell. But sexologists do not advise neglecting these once-popular aphrodisiacs.
We, in turn, will turn to the French again onion salad.
"Salad of love"
Cut two apples (peeled or peeled, if desired) into cubes half a centimeter, mix with sour cream sauce and finely chopped herbs. Put in a salad bowl with a slide. Cut a steep egg into slices, two leeks into rings. Garnish the salad with a vegetable daisy flower, which overlay with onion rings and herbs.
In ancient Greece, as an aphrodisiac during the festivities in honor of Aphrodite and Adonis, especially lettuce was recommended, "as small-leaved as possible, with yellowish veins, adored by Aphrodite."
With amazing generosity and courtesy, nature created honey, which not only heals, makes women beautiful, but also enters into most aphrodisiac drinks and teas. Venus herself consumed honey with great desire. And Queen Cleopatra claimed that honey enhances sex drive and helps conceive healthy children. In ancient China, it was believed that a drink of apple juice, chamomile infusion, currant leaves, grated radish, dandelion leaves and three tablespoons of honey enhances male potency. And here is no less “necessary” drink:
Drink Erotic Dream
Mix a tablespoon of grated carrots and dry grated radish with a spoon of dry nettle, pour four cups of boiling water and put on fire. Bring to a boil, remove from heat, let it brew for about ten minutes. Drain the broth, mix with a glass of warm milk and a teaspoon of honey. Serve only hot.
From the depths of centuries, the Altai custom has come down to us together with the horn of morality as a wedding present to the groom to multiply the kind of handing and the golden root fanned with a halo of mystery. “He who finds the golden root,” says the old local belief, “will be lucky and healthy until the end of his days, he will live two centuries.” The golden root, or radiola, usually insists on vodka, adding sugar, lemon essence and thus obtaining a tonic drink.
Nevertheless, the most powerful action, according to sexologists, has ginseng.The Chinese claim that when "there is ginseng, there is health." This "miracle of the world" is just one of the best aphrodisiacs. After a course of treatment, the cold in the matrimonial bedroom ceases to blow. And once upon a time, the sex glands of goats grazing on the southern slopes of the Himalayas were successfully used to treat impotence. Ginseng is included in their diet. By the way, the drug based on this miraculous plant - "Elixir of Health" is now in herbal pharmacies and on the shelves of Russian stores.
But before we resort to the help of any of the listed means, let us sincerely admit to ourselves that most of our sexual problems are not in an imaginary physical disability, but in ourselves, due to ninety percent only for psychological reasons. Without rejecting the listed funds and products, we will still consider the best “irritant” to be a tender partner, moderate nutrition and appropriate physical activity.
And the poet was probably right, saying:
"Who is afraid to exhaust himself,
will certainly become a beggar.
Give yourself away no matter what
if you want to really know
happiness in life. "