|
|
|
|
Welcome to the SuperiorMuscle.com - Bodybuilding Forums. You are currently viewing our boards as a guest which gives you limited access to view most discussions and access our other features. By joining our free community you will have access to post topics, communicate privately with other members (PM), respond to polls, upload content and access many other special features. Registration is fast, simple and absolutely free so please, join our community today! If you have any problems with the registration process or your account login, please contact us. |
|
|||||||
 |
|
|
Thread Tools |
|
#1
03-18-04, 05:17 PM
|
||||
|
||||
|
Spanish Fly
My girl recently brought a bottle home which led me to do the following research:
Spanish Fly (pulverized blister-beetles) contains cantharides, which can cause physical arousal of a sort, by irritating the urinary tract when ingested and excreted. But dig this: it was used in the mid-19th century to treat pleurisy. Applied to the skin, it created blisters 12 by 6 inches in size, which (it was erroneously thought) beneficially drew liquid away from the lungs. You want that *inside* your ureter? In Victorian England there were several cases of manslaughter or malicious poisoning by means of Spanish Fly. In one, Regina v. Hennah, 1877, in which the victim didn't die, the defendant was acquitted because no intent to harm was proved. In more recent times, and more legitimately, the active ingredient in Spanish Fly was used medicinally to dissolve external warts. Sources: (1) P.V.Taberner, "Aphrodisiacs: the science and the myth" (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1985). We don't need no stinkin' ISBNumber; look it up in your library catalog or Books in Print. (2) Encyclopaedia Britannica, 15th ed., source of last resort, s.vv. "aphrodisiac" and "blister beetle". 
|
| Sponsored Links |
|
#3
03-20-04, 07:06 PM
|
|||
|
|||
When I was growing up, there was an "urban legend" about a guy who gave some to his girlfriend and then he stopped and went into a store, when he came out she had killed herself screwing his gear-shifter she was so horny. BB
__________________
Bonebreaker
|
|
#4
03-20-04, 09:42 PM
|
||||
|
||||
|
That shit doesn't work....its just a gimmick to get you to spend your money!!! I know, I tried it!!
|
|
#6
03-21-04, 09:16 AM
|
||||
|
||||
|
Quote:
Ha! I remember hearing that story growing up in New York !
|
|
#7
03-21-04, 01:11 PM
|
|||
|
|||
|
Hey Stromba, if you heard it in New York, and I in North Carolina, it was probably in all states. "urban legends", don't you just love 'em? BB
__________________
Bonebreaker
|
|
#9
03-21-04, 05:35 PM
|
||||
|
||||
|
Quote:
LOL.... I REALLY wanted it to be true. BB. I don't know how old you are, but I am 40 so I must have heard that as early as about 1980.
|
|
| Thread Tools | |
|
|
