Oysters, asparagus, bananas, figs and eels are all supposed to make us want to grab our partners and bonk the lives out of them. But do they? And if they do, why do they?
Whether or not they really work from a scientific point of view is still up for debate, but there seems to be no doubt that they do something that tends to lead a person to wanting more sex. In all probability, the answer is that it’s all in the mind.
Asparagus, bananas and eels are all phallic shaped, thus reminding us of something that’s very much related to sex. When we eat bananas and asparagus, we’re able to run our tongues around the tips and suck them between our lips, reminding ourselves and whoever happens to be sp-ectating that the mouth can be a very desirable and sexual object. As for eels… well, I’ll leave that one to you. I personally can’t imagine either licking or sucking them and to be honest, the only ones I’ve ever seen have been cut into chunks and served in jelly down in London’s East End.
When it comes to oysters and figs, evidently it’s the visual aspect that turns us on. Why? Because they resemble a woman’s vulva. I personally can’t see the similarity between my vulva and a fig, but an oyster… yes, that’s sexy!
When I mentioned this to my mother, her reaction was that muscles more closely resembled a woman’s “downstairs” (she’s pretty broad-minded but still has trouble describing her bits). “Think about it,” she said. “They even have hair”. I thought about it and yes, it was true – they do have hair at the top of the split where two dangling lips are cocooned between what could easily be two outer lips. Why, I wonder, are muscles never named as an aphrodisiac?
Suggestion is a powerful tool and if foods that remind us of our sex organs do the business then we should go ahead and enjoy them.
Sadie xxx