Cupid's Arrow: The Secrets Of Love Potions, Aphrodisiacs & Spells

Most men probably can't tell you what the real situation in Bosnia is right now, but ask them about the latest news on treatments for impotence, and they'll surely tell you that the smell of pumpkin adds 40% more blood flow to the penis. And it's a helluva lot more attractive than the ancient Egyptian solution for impotence (dip your member into a jar of wasps every day for 10 days--the results: increased virility and notable swelling...if you don't die). These are just a couple of the esoteric tidbits in Cupid's Arrow, a compendium of trivia for erstwhile seductresses and stud muffins. Want to get your significant other's motor running? Place a crow's eye under the bed. If that doesn't work, stir a teaspoon full of powdered fox testicle into his Bud, and he'll be your love slave. Actual recipes are given for such potions as "Cleopatra's Elixir of Everlasting Love" and "Casanova's Cocktail." And while there are more stretchers here than you'd find in a major metropolitan hospital, a few myths are actually laid to rest. Spanish Fly, long thought to be the king of aphrodisiacs, is not only a blistering agent, it's also a Class 1 poison. Mini re-enactments, onscreen graphics, and close-ups of paraphernalia provide the visual aspects of the program, but it's the audio track here that holds the main attraction. And before you dismiss too many of the notions presented here, you might recall that a) most of this stuff started in China, and b) the population figures suggest that some of it worked. Recommended. (R. Pitman)