Like most of you, I had always heard of chocolate’s reputation as aphrodisiac. So I was slightly puzzled when a gentleman on an AOL message board (a few years ago, isn’t there any more) claimed that a man should avoid chocolate for the sake of his sex life. I didn’t follow up with him to find out where he got that idea.
A couple years ago, I was looking through a book by Rufus C. Camphausen, Return of the Tribal: A Celebration of Body Adornment: Piercing, Tattooing, Scarification, Body Painting. He was talking about the erotic value of tattoos, and digressed into reflections about living on a tropical island, breathing fresh air and eating only natural foods, and avoiding chocolate, and how all this was stimulating to his sex life. Camphausen being a noted author of books on matters erotic, maybe he knew something.
Maybe the point was just to live on natural food for good health and to avoid too many stimulants like caffeine. I’m not sure where this idea came from. Has anyone else ever heard of this?
Hmm, here’s a wild shot in the dark: … silly man forgot to have himself coated in chocolate and therefore went unsatisfied due to partner off eating chocolate alone rather than eating chocolate off man.
hey, why not! The theobromine in chocolate, IIRC (don’t quote me) is a “cousin” to caffiene and acts the same way… or perhaps because, unless he’s got really eclectic tastes & likes his chocolate raw, chocolate requires sugar to be decently tasty and the combination of the sugar and theobromine might send him through the roof?
I’d suppose living on a diet of natural foods (is there un-natural food? :: ponders Little Debbie products:: ok, forget I said that) without caffiene, etc. would make one extra sensitive to it. For example, I quit eating sugar shortly after christmas… of course, that hasn’t lasted quite the way I planned (I swear up and down sugar is the cheapest heroin on the market) and when I do give in to the cravings, it sends me for a total loop… stomach goes crazy, nerves go crazy, I get bitchy… the works. This past week has been a binge session and it’s made me feel horrible (hence my comparision to heroin - I hate the feeling, don’t know why I do it to myself but :: pops chocolate piece in mouth, rolls eyes in delight:: mmm, yummy…)… I’ve been off regular caffiene for a couple years now and even the miniscule amount of caffiene in decaf sends me over the top… so long story short (haha), it’s not unreasonable that a sensitivity to caffiene/sugar, etc. might make the guy uncomfortable enough to not want to fool around - if he’s a big fan of tantra or something similar, it might be real hard for him to go slo-mo with a sugar rush and caffiene buzz.
Or, maybe there’s something about chocolate that makes the little man not particularily excited about coming out to play - but that sounds strange & illogical considering the legends about Montezuma and his girly-friends (granted, they’re legends and unfortunately for the big M, not the ones most notoriously associated with his name… oooh, or maybe the chocolate causes…ahem…and…um, perhaps Montezuma did a lot of bragging to cover his ass…er…ego?) - but, who knows? Should I pin my hubby down, stuff a couple Chocolove chocolate bars into him and see what happens (he’ll barf, I think, but we can try, for the sake of research…)?
Now, giving chocolate to women…that’s another story…
Years ago I read a history of coffee, and there was an anecdote from when coffee first appeared in Persia in the 16th century. A woman went out of her house one day and saw her stablemaster busy gelding a horse. She asked what he was doing and he explained. She remarked that he could have accomplished the same task more easily by giving the horse coffee.
Hmm, looks like this woman had “issues” with her husband’s performance, and blamed it on his coffee habit.
FTR, I have never noticed coffee having this effect on me, but there was this idea in folklore about it. Megaira, point well taken about needing to slow down when you get Tantric.
y’know, you’d think I’d have thought of this…but perhaps the lack of caffiene renders me clueless:
My husband drinks a ton of caffiene… and if it’s not coffee straight out of the pot, blacker than death itself (the man would order a vente espresso if they’d make one), it’s dr. pepper or mountian dew…so it can’t be caffiene or sugar/caffiene mix… because, unless he’s got a twin that’s a healthfood slu…er…nut…that’s been switching places with him, it hasn’t caused any problems that way. Granted, if theobromine is not specifically caffiene, but just very similar to it, there might be a difference… but still, it wouldn’t have a very good reputation as an aphrodisiac when one sex but not the other is only affected by it.
Yeowsahs, ok, haven’t bumped this thread very far up, oh no, not at all…
A piece of hearsay in favor of using chocolate before sex:
An ex-girlfriend had a copy of Playgirl lying around, with the “How to Give the Perfect Blowjob” article in it. You know, the one they run every three months in every women’s mag? It suggested that chocolate was a great idea if you didn’t like the taste of semen. Apparently, chocolate is one of the many things that changes the flavor of semen, in this case for the better. We never explored the possibility, since I taste so good naturally (according to her; she was absolutely delicious).
If anybody wants to run a controlled experiment on this subject, I’m available as both flavored and non-flavored.
