Aphrodisiacs and Love Stimulants Author:John Davenport Found in this work are other chapters on The Secrets of Venus, being the two books by John Davenport entitled "Aphrodisiacs and Anti-Aphrodisiacs" and "Curiositates Eroticae Physiologiae, or Tabooed Subjects Freely Treated." Contents: aphrodisiacs or erotic stimuli and their opposites, as known to, and used by, the ancients and moderns; ancient ... more »phallic worship, remarks upon the symbols of reproductive powers; anaphrodisia or absence of the reproductive powers; on virginity and chastity; on marriage; on circumcision; on eunuchism; on hermaphrodism.« less