Definition of aphrodisiac
: an agent (such as a food or drug) that arouses or is held to arouse sexual desire
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The resort’s spa offers the Damiana & Honeymoon 90-minute massage utilizing a damiana leaf scrub and damiana oil massage (damiana is a traditional Mexican herb celebrated for its known aphrodisiac qualities).
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Overall, conservationists say there is no sweeping aphrodisiac craze driving lust for rhino horn.
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Scandal was, with respect to its plot, as close as network television comes to true madness, a melodrama in which power and murder went hand-in-hand and traded off being the defining aphrodisiac for a team of antiheroes.
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Saffron, which releases its intense flavor when heated, has been considered an aphrodisiac for thousands of years.
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Rhino horns are used in some Asian medicines and viewed as aphrodisiacs.
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Madame du Barry, the last mistress of King Louis XV, reportedly used chocolate mixed with amber as an aphrodisiac to seduce her lovers.
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Bird’s gets its full name from the alleged qualities of the oysters, but that burger was the real aphrodisiac.
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Roiphe’s nameless friend who wished someone could admit that power is an aphrodisiac must have missed Laura Kipnis’s piece wrestling with the implications of that old Kissinger observation, in The New York Times Magazine.
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