"The Spanish Fly Is Real, and It’s Ridiculously Dangerous" Topic
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| Tango01 | 13 Mar 2015 9:14 p.m. PST |
"In 1869, a French military doctor got what we can confidently say was one of the stranger cases of his career. A group of soldiers were complaining of weakness, stomach problems, dry mouths, and aggressively persistent erections. The problem, it seemed, was that they'd been eating frogs that had themselves been eating the fabled Spanish fly. In reality, it's not a fly. It's actually one of the 3,000 species of so-called blister beetles. And the bug's defensive secretion, cantharidin, has been used as an "aphrodisiac" since ancient times. Yeah, it doesn't actually work, unless your idea of sexy is dying a horrible death. Still, throughout history men often laced women's drinks with it (alleged rapists like Bill Cosby still joke about it) or took it themselves…"
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| Great War Ace | 14 Mar 2015 8:05 p.m. PST |
Well, I'll be swizzled. Nasty world out there. Thanks for the reminder, I guess…. |
| Tango01 | 17 Mar 2015 3:36 p.m. PST |
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| Old Slow Trot | 25 Mar 2015 6:33 a.m. PST |
I read somewhere that the Marquis de Sade employed the stuff,and it was one of the reasons he was held in the Bastille for a time. |
| Weasel | 02 Apr 2015 2:18 p.m. PST |
The old Leisure Suit Larry video game featured "spanish fly" as an item in the game.
As a kid playing it, I never had any idea what it was. |
| zippyfusenet | 05 Apr 2015 6:57 p.m. PST |
There was a little Spanish flea,
A record star he thought he'd be.
He heard that Monkees and Beatles
Were making it big on TV,
Why not a little Spanish flea? |
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has been spending time in paradise lately.