FEAR AS AN APHRODISIAC - Hartford Courant

Gina Barreca, an author and English professor at the University of Connecticut, is a vehement critic: "The big thing that really makes 'Twilight' a really bad book is that fear should never be an aphrodisiac.

When I use a word . . . The pharmacology of love and sex

Pharmacological aphrodisiacs. An aphrodisiac is defined in the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) as "A drug or preparation inducing sexual desire."11 And in its adjectival sense it is defined as "Of or relating to sexual desire: that tends to increase sexual desire." Other attributes of aphrodisiacs could be added to this definition. I have a list of over 450 different aphrodisiacs, of ...