Sex Truths From Harry Potter?
I’m probably one of the last people on the planet not to have read all the Harry Potter books. Just not that interested in the straightup stuff. (The fanfic is another story, especially if it’s naughty fanfic.) It wasn’t all that long ago that I saw one of the movies with a friend, it was the one that had one of the professors giving Harry chocolate all the time and saying, “Eat this. It’ll help.” I thought that was kind of silly, but it turns out I was wrong. I just happened to catch this headline…Chocolate-Fed Women Have Better Sex Lives. From the story:
Italian researchers found that women who ate chocolate on a daily basis had higher libidos than those who didn’t. They also found that chocolate-fed women had better sexual arousal and more sexual satisfaction. Their scientific conclusion: The craving of choice for many women has some real benefits for our sex lives.
There’s probably some leftover Valentine’s Day candy on sale in some stores…..and no thanks necessary, guys. ;)
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And, regarding the special shape that Valentine chocolate comes in, Catherine Blackledge writes, in her excellent book The Story of V: Opening Pandora’s Box:
“. . .many researchers point to the western world’s ultimate emblem of love — the heart — as none other than a vaginal icon. It’s certainly the case that if you look at female genitalia when they are aroused . . . the form the visibe vagina outlines is unmistakably heart-shaped. . . . Hearts themselves are definitely not heart-shaped.” (pg 54)
So yeah… maybe we’ve known the connection instinctively for a while, now…
Is suddenly craving some — hot, and bittersweet….
Hell, I’ve never seen the cover of a Harry Potter book….thank God,
The heart is symbolic of all the sex organs as well as orifices. The mouth, ass, scrotum, breast, vagina are all heart shaped in some form or another. A friend of mine cut out images of sex organs from porn magazines into shapes of hearts and made a lovely Valentine with them.
Harry Potter rocks. Classic Western children’s literature. Read them all.
To Figleaf:
Further study would probably be relatively straightforward, and fun.
Indeed! Though I’d be willing to risk sacrificing the rigorously scientific aspects of the study, though, if those aspects got in the way of the fun….
A higher libido might increase chocolate cravings instead.
yeah — your libido could just be the strength with which you crave anything, even though we only think of it in terms of craving sex.
To Jinian:
Oooh, I hate migraines, and am grateful chocolate doesn’t seem to trigger mine. You have my sympathies.
If you’re looking for a libido-treat substitute, I’ve discovered ginger to be a powerful aphrodisiac. One time, I grabbed some pickled ginger as a part of my afternoon nibble, and a few minutes later, I was on the verge of spontaneous orgasm — I wasn’t even thinking about sex at the time.
I am the other person who has never read or watched Harry Potter, but I did see the Lindsay Lohan skit on SNL with her breasts starring as themain character….
“Their scientific conclusion: The craving of choice for many women has some real benefits for our sex lives.”
It’s a bit of a stretch to call it a scientific conclusion. The lead researcher says only that there’s an “intriguing correlation” in the study.
It doesn’t look like he was specifically testing whether chocolate enhances libido, though. A higher libido might increase chocolate cravings instead.
Further study would probably be relatively straightforward, and fun.
figleaf
I’m in favor of chocolate for all you people who can eat it without risking migraines (bastards), but that’s an absurdly unscientific conclusion. This article’s a bit more even-handed.
I can’t believe you’ve never read the Potter books! It’s filled with sugesstive innuendo if you’re mind’s been set right in the gutter. Besides, most of the smut I’ve read always had some sort of references back to the books. Background always keeps the smut more exciting~ :hehe:
I read the first book, and enjoyed it… A right rollicking story.
But I shy away from crowds, so I’m going to wait until it’s no longer a great phenomenon to read the other books.
As a self-proclaimed geek (and avid harry fan), there was a reason we kept getting offered chocolate. Unfortunately, the stupid scriptwriter’s prefer to cut out a whole bunch of important things so that many parts of the movie are missing. grrr…
Chocolate is the only thing that will warm you up after encountering a Dementor.
heh heh… There, now I can be shamed! : p
as Dawn French once said, there are two kinds of women in this world, those who love chocolate, and complete bitches.
Note to YoniYum:
Not to mention the glans of the penis, which looks a bit like the Mandelbrot set ( http://en.wikip...t.jpg )…
It probably has something to do with the role that fractals ( http://en.wikip...actal ) play in natural design. Which are probably guided by the Fibonacci Sequence ( http://en.wikip...mbers ) For instance, imagine the heart shape created by placing two cut nautilus shells ( http://en.wikip...l.jpg ) together, symmetrically, like a mirror image. Nature apparently adores bilateral symmetry by the way…: http://en.wikip...logy)
A heart shape is roughly two book-matched logarithmic(-ish) spiral curves, using the line created by the side of a golden rectangle, which contains a golden spiral: http://en.wikip...piral
In nature, fiddle-head spirals can even be found in the way many seeds sprout, or growing fern tips unfurl.
Interested readers might glean even more clarifying information about the sexy beauty of the naked body following these links:
http://en.wikip...ratio
…which will explain how to find a golden triangle ( http://en.wikip...tics) ), which will explain how to create a perfect pentagram ( http://www.gold...4.gif ), which Leonardo da Vinci has showed us in his Vitruvian Man drawing ( http://www.gnos...n.gif ) was apparently used by nature in our body’s design. See also: http://ww3.ac-p...s.gif
Eventually, this will all help you to understand the use of “Divine Proportion” in the Golden Mask: http://www.digi...04713
The mask article by the way, also features an extraordinary graphic of the tessellation of pentagrams.
The various golden ratios are perhaps easier to see here: http://emobrien....html
You don’t have to be beautiful. Nearly all average faces have golden ratios.
Notice the heart shapes hidden in the following sphere illustration:
http://en.wikip...o.svg