Contents

Preface
Introduction

• What Are Aphrodisiacs?
• Aphrodite and Venus
• What Are ‘Agents of Pleasure”?
• What Is an ‘Intoxicant’ or ‘Addictive Drug”?
• How Does One Use Aphrodisiacs?
  On Expectations, Disappointments, and Desires
• How Do Aphrodisiacs Work?
  Dosage, Set, and Setting
• Who’s Afraid of Aphrodisiacs?
  On Desire and Its Demonization How Did It Come to This?
• The Five Senses—Our Sources of Erotic Experience
  Vision
  Hearing
  Touch
  Smell
  Taste
  Fire, Water, Air, and Earth To Experience with All of Our Senses?
  Which Senses Are Still with Us?
  The Forgotten Sixth or Seventh Sense
  The Power of the Senses over the Course of Time
• Aphrodisiacs in Art
  Grape, Vine, and Wine
  Poppies and Opium
  Hemp, Cannabis, and Hashish
  Coca Leaves and Cocaine
  The True Character of Aphrodisiacs in Art
  A Look at Aphrodisiacs Today
  Aphrodisiacs and Morality in Art
  Eroticism in the Art of Polytheistic Cultures
  Eroticism in the Art of Monotheistic Cultures
  The Perception of Eroticism, Sexuality, and Aphrodisiacs—Beyond Art

The Encyclopedia from A to Z

• The Structure of the Monographs
• Pharmacratica Aphrodisiae: Legal Issues
•  About the Images

Appendix. A Short History of Books on the Topic of Aphrodisiacs and Love Agents
Bibliography
Resources
Acknowledgments
Index

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