These may not be, for the most part, your everyday foods. And yet! There are many aphrodisiac products that are (relatively) easy to incorporate into your culinary preparations. Beware, however! Many reputable libido-boosting products don’t turn out to be as effective as some might think. Others, it is said, have real virtues in this area. Is it enough to make one or the other climb the curtains? More information about this in our slideshow, which you will find at the end of this article.

In fact, explains Jacques Waynberg, sexologist interviewed by the magazine Sexologies, an aphrodisiac is “a substance, a behavior or an environment which simulates sexual desire”. Historically and semantically speaking, the word has mainly been used for all products capable of responding to potential erectile disorders. “We especially sought to boost the male mechanism”, he explains indeed. And the magazine continues on some of the historical constants associated with aphrodisiac products.

It is clear that the notion of aphrodisiac foods returns in many cultures across the globe. “We can mention the beliefs that attribute to certain foods the ability to increase sexual potential. The complete list of these foods with aphrodisiac virtues could include several thousand”, specifies for his part the professor of anthropology Jesus Contreras, in his Dictionary of food cultures (PUF editions). A number of them are probably hiding in your kitchen…