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By DR. FLYGOOD

Greek mythology, Aphrodite, the goddess of love and beauty and fruitfulness was identified by the Romans as Venus. It is from this goddess that we derive the word aphrodisiac. An aphrodisiac is anyone of the various forms of stimulants used chiefly to promote sexual excitement. Traditionally, aphrodisiacs have been classified into two principle groups: 1) the psychophysiological (visual, tactile, olfactory and aural) and 2) internal (food, alcoholic beverages, drinks, drugs, love potions and medical preparations."

Since time began, people have shown a popular interest in aphrodisiacs, yet, curiously, almost no scientific studies of them have been made. Scientific research has been limited to occasional tests of drugs or hormones for the cure of impotence in males. Since most

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The available literature on the subject suggests that those plants which most resembled the genitalia became those "most-likely-to-succeed" vegetatis eroticus.

writings on the subject are little more than unscientific compilations of traditional or folkloric materials, researching for this article was virtually fruitless.

Throughout history, the vegetables and other foods to which aphrodisiac powers have been attributed contain no chemical agent that could effect a direct physiological reaction.

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However debatable, the notion of an aphrodisiac may be man has chosen to elect a small but potent group of agents; (e.g., in liquid, tablet and lotion form) which produce a reaction or expression of pre-orgasmic excitement.

Some of the most acknowledged and celebrated of these include liquor, amyl nitrate, marijuana, Spanish fly, buttermilk, massage oil and most of the illegitimate members of the hallucinogenic family. The responses of these aphros vary between individuals and thus cannot be neatly compartmentalized or designated degree of effectiveness.

It is my contention and experience that the resultant condition of the body upon either ingesting or absorbing one of the aforementioned aphros might well be considered a "body high."

this article c/o the editor of this discriminant aphro-consumers paper; the survey will be tallied... desiring quite precisely and presented in the next issue). 'whatever turns us on.' Ever so When considering the personally, then, I contend that possibility of the psychophysicothe mentai high that has for its logical aphrodisiacs, one might catalyst imagery, is the most efinclude under visual porfective and full proof of the nographic pictures or any full aphrodisiascs. color centerfold of your favorite behind the counter mag); as tactile, any and all fingertip explorations; as olfactory, the smells of the body and the odors we place on the body to excite a partner.

The highs from these several agents can, as all things in life, be assigned some rating; where (1) is the highest or most verile of the stimulants and (5) is the lowest. (We encourage you to cut out, fill in and mail the rating box found in the lower corner of

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While musky oils, perfurmes and Brut may be included here, deodorants cannot as they serve too functional a role in daily life; as aural (or auditory) one would do well to include all the grunts resulting from the tangy eruptation of the skin vocalized in noise.

One cannot forget the inevitable squeaks of the mattress or the splish splashy welladensed song of sweat. In this author's experience, the most erotic producing agent of them all and my personal psychophysiological aphro of choice is that produced from taste.

Here, we must include all those juices that spew forth from the ejaculatory tubular mechanism (often reminiscent of a watery but warm buttermilk .. succulent and sour).

Like certain acts that we prefer in bed, we become

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Dr. John Pettibone, an associate professor in Journalism at Bowling Green University, has begun an intensive inquiry into gay journalism in

I the United States. Under a grant I from the university. Dr. PetThe mental murals produced when masturbating, for example, samples of gay publications I tibone has begun collecting are employed to first promote and later sustain excitation and produce the volcanic 'climatic (if you will) reactions. These

suggest to you, are aphros in their most brilliant form aphros au naturalle. Instead of applying an external agent to an area... the mind transmits impulses triggered by mental stimuli to specific locales in the neighborhood of the genitalia.

In the long run, the conclusion seems obvious and prudent. I strongly recommend that you become your own aphrodisiac. After all, what with inflation, we can all afford to inI vest more in the mind and less in the pharmacy.

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from around the country, such as the Advocate, Contact, In Ohio East Gay News, and the Touch, and locally, High Gear. Rapping Paper. In conducting interviews with the editors of the publications, studying format types, and the philosophies expounded, Dr. Pettibone hopes to gather enough data to compile a definitive work on the gay press in America. According to Dr. Pettibone, one of the biggest stumbling blocks to open chan. nels in the gay media is the lack of national gay news service. and he hopes that his work will the different encourage publications to communicate.

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