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John Marriott Davenport. Aphrodisiacs and Anti-aphrodisiacs
Aphrodisiacs and Anti-aphrodisiacs
Table of Contents
PREFACE
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
ESSAY I
ESSAY II
ESSAY III
ESSAY I. REMARKS UPON THE SYMBOLS OF THE. REPRODUCTIVE POWERS
ESSAY II. ANAPHRODISIA; OR, ABSENCE OF THE REPRODUCTIVE POWER
ESSAY III. APHRODISIACS, OR, EROTIC STIMULI, AND. THEIR OPPOSITES, AS KNOWN TO, AND USED BY, THE ANCIENTS AND MODERNS
ANTI-APHRODISIACS
FOOTNOTES
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John Davenport
Three Essays on the Powers of Reproduction
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According to an ingenious writer,7 who is of opinion that the Indians sent, at a very remote period, colonists to Ireland, the round towers, so numerous in that island, are no other than ancient Phallic temples erected in honour of the fructifying power of nature emanating, as it was supposed to do, from the sun, under the name of Sol, Phœbus, Apollo, Abad, or Budh.8
Alluding to these towers, Mr. O'Brien observes, "the eastern votaries, suiting the action to the idea, and that their vivid imaginations might be still more enlivened by the very form of the temple, actually constructed its architecture after the model of the membrum virile, which, obscenity apart, is the divinity-formed and indispensable medium selected by God himself for human propagation and sexual prolificacy." There is every reason to believe that our May-pole is a relic of the ancient Phallic worship.
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