Aphrodisiacs and Anti-aphrodisiacs: Three Essays on the Powers of ReproductionDavenport, John
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Aphrodisiacs and Anti-aphrodisiacs: Three Essays on the Powers of Reproduction
Davenport, John
Phallicism; Sex; Sex customs -- France -- History -- 17th century
Another aphrodisiacal remedy, which for a long time enjoyed a great
reputation was the penis of the stag, which was supposed to possess the
virtue of furnishing a man with an abundance of seminal fluid. Perhaps
the reason why the ancients attributed this property to the genital
member of that animal was from the supposition that it was the
receptacle of the bile; that the abundance and acrid quality of this
fluid caused lasciviousness, and that the stag being transported by an
erotic furor during the rutting season, he was the most salacious of
animals, and consequently that the genital organ of this quadruped
would, when applied to man's generative apparatus, impart thereto
considerable heat and irritation. A somewhat similar opinion respecting
the horse appears to have obtained among the Tartars, if we may judge
from the following account given by Foucher d'Obsonville:[163] "Les
palefreniers aménent un cheval de sept à huit ans, mais nerveux, bien
nourri et en bon état. On lui présente une jument comme pour la saillir,
et cependant on le retient de façon à bien irriter ses idées. Enfin,
dans le moment où il semble qu'il va lui être libre de s'élancer dessus,
l'on fait adroitment passer la verge dans un cordon dont le nœud
coulant est rapproché au ventre, ensuite, saisissant à l'instant où
l'animal parait dans sa plus forte érection, deux hommes qui tiennent
les extrémités du cordon le tirent avec force et, sur le champ, le
membre est séparé du corps au dessus le nœud coulant. Par ce moyen,
les esprits sont retenus et fixés dane cette partie laquelle rests
gonflée; aussitôt on la lave et la fait cuire avec divers aromatiques et
épiceries aphrodisiaques."
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