Food Aphrodisiacs Fact or Myth? - Jamaica Talk

lea · #1 (**permalink**) 07-10-2004, 04:40 PM

What is your opinion on foods that they say enhance the sex drive are they facts or myths.. any favorites out there?

LuvJamaicanMen · #2 (**permalink**) 07-10-2004, 04:42 PM

Well i personally, absolutely love chocolate...and people say that it is an aphrodisiac..butnot for me....although one of my co-workers says that when her husband wants ti he gives her the dark chocolate to eat..and she sayd that that does the trick..so i don't know

lea · #3 (**permalink**) 07-10-2004, 05:04 PM

Yea Chocolate is a favorite with alot of people.. You cant go wrong because it taste so good. But alot people think it works, look at Valentines Day..I think its a myth though(lol)

JamCan · #4 (**permalink**) 07-10-2004, 05:13 PM

Unless the brainiac KC can find us an article that actually proves this fact I think its all in the head. I heard that red smarties are Aphrodisiac....do you all even have smarties in the states?? Not sure.
Anyways I think this whole notion is like the "placebo effect" meaning that if people "think" its an aphrodisiac then they act accordingly. If you don't believe it than nothing will have that effect on you. Just like hypnotism......its all in the power of suggestion.

To me.....men's cologne turns me on MORE than any food ever did!

LuvJamaicanMen · #5 (**permalink**) 07-10-2004, 05:20 PM

Fi true Gurrl....cologne..that;s ah biggie wid me too...nutn more than a man smelling gooooooooddddd!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!.......

Open sesami!!!!

HONEYPYE · #6 (**permalink**) 07-10-2004, 07:49 PM

Me noh know if a true ar not but me noh wat some good curry goat,white rice and a cold corona/labatts blue/red stripe beer and som hard reggae music do to me..... mahn it bring out de beast inna me!!!! lol lol lol

JamCan · #7 (**permalink**) 07-10-2004, 10:28 PM

HONEY I could just leave out the whole food thing and tek up with di alcohol and hard reggae music. I think alcohol is my aphrodisiac!!! And the music just add to the pleasure.

Blingee$ha · #8 (**permalink**) 07-17-2004, 03:18 PM

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Originally Posted by lea

What is your opinion on foods that they say enhance the sex drive are they facts or myths.. any favorites out there?

To be honest with you.. I think that it's like a placebo! If you only believe it's working..LOL! Like I know it's prooven that chocolate stimulates certain hormones in women that are the same as the ones that are created through sexual arousal. In most cases I think it's down to prefferances, and tastes!

Have you ever watched SexTv? There was this one episode where these guys were boring holes in fruit like watermelons and stuff and sexing them!

kc4u · #9 (**permalink**) 04-05-2007, 03:27 PM

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Originally Posted by JamCan

Unless the brainiac KC can find us an article that actually proves this fact I think its all in the head. Anyways I think this whole notion is like the "placebo effect" meaning that if people "think" its an aphrodisiac then they act accordingly. If you don't believe it than nothing will have that effect on you. Just like hypnotism......its all in the power of suggestion.

Well it is a little bit more than just "placebo effect" becuase chocolate contains substances called Phenylethylamine and Seratonin, both of which simply put are mood lifting agents found naturally in the human brain. They are released into the nervous system by the brain when we are happy and when we are experiencing feelings of love, passion or lust. This causes rapid mood change, a rise in blood pressure and increasing heart rate, inducing those feelings of well being, bordering on euphoria usually associated with being in love and wanting to make love.

Eating chocolate also releases Phenylethylamine and Seratonin into the system producing those these euphoric effects, plus it can give a substantial energy boost thus increasing stamina - caused by the sugars.

So there you have it, calling Chocolate an aphrodisiac is probably stretching it a bit, but eating chocolate does make you feel good and can actually induce or 'mimic' the feelings of being in love...

Hotteach · #10 (**permalink**) 04-05-2007, 04:41 PM

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Originally Posted by kc4u

Well it is a little bit more than just "placebo effect" becuase chocolate contains substances called Phenylethylamine and Seratonin, both of which simply put are mood lifting agents found naturally in the human brain. They are released into the nervous system by the brain when we are happy and when we are experiencing feelings of love, passion or lust. This causes rapid mood change, a rise in blood pressure and increasing heart rate, inducing those feelings of well being, bordering on euphoria usually associated with being in love and wanting to make love.

Eating chocolate also releases Phenylethylamine and Seratonin into the system producing those these euphoric effects, plus it can give a substantial energy boost thus increasing stamina - caused by the sugars.

So there you have it, calling Chocolate an aphrodisiac is probably stretching it a bit, but eating chocolate does make you feel good and can actually induce or 'mimic' the feelings of being in love...

LOLOL I did a research paper on this in college...it true...its true.....I wonder if eating a massive amount of chocolate will get me over my broken heart....prolly not and then I will be too fat to find a new man...not gonna try that experiment!

kc4u · #11 (**permalink**) 04-05-2007, 05:30 PM

sorry no broken heart quick fixes here

Hotteach · #12 (**permalink**) 04-05-2007, 05:47 PM

Oh well.....guess I will have to resort to the usual....eating of hagan daz, crying, watching Waiting to exhale, and man bashing with my girlfriends....followed by some shopping and sex with a new man! Chocolate would have been so much easier....Damn!