By I have recently been going back over the research from my first book and thinking again about early modern aphrodisiacs. Often popular imagination focuses on the foods that we and past societies, including early modern people, consumed to increase their libidos – things like pheasants, oysters, ginger and rocket. However
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Aphrodisiacs, Fertility and Medicine
It was common knowledge in early modern England that sexual desire was malleable, and could be increased or decreased by a range of foods – including artichokes, oysters and parsnips. This book argues that these aphrodisiacs were used not simply for sexual pleasure, but, more importantly, to enhance fertility and
Beans, Nuts and Pulses
‘When Beans were the Food of Lust’, BBC History Magazine (April 2014) In this month’s BBC History Magazine you can find my article all about flatulent aphrodisiacs. You can now read the article in full online here Throughout early modern medical treatises and botanical works writers detailed a range of