Measures to reduce or eliminate sexual arousal and sexual function (plant, animal or magic-based). For various reasons, they were used in many cultures of the world. In ancient times and the Middle Ages, cold baths were recommended, as well as drinks and plants giving a feeling of coolness. In folk medicine, herbs (serdecznik, St. John's wort, hawthorn or melissa) were used.
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Symbolic colors
The symbolism of colors varies depending on the culture. It gives symbolic meaning to works of art and magical objects:
white - purity, innocence (Diana);
blue - loyalty, modesty (Madonna's robe);
red - love, fight;
gray - modesty, uncertainty, blending into the crowd;
green - hope, youth (spring, Venus);
yellow - jealousy.
Underwear and sex
Underwear emphasizing the attributes of femininity or masculinity may act as a sexual stimulus, but for many people it does not matter much. For some men, the dressing of a undressed woman is of great erotic significance, they give expression to it, and they also expect their partner to satisfy their preferences. Underwear and other clothing features are an important element of the love art. Thanks to the presence of sex shops, it begins to spread. Attachment to underwear is typical in romances, less frequently found in stabilized relationships. Erotic lingerie can become a sexual fetish.
Cigars
In sexuality they have several meanings: feeling desire for a burning person (kapnolagnia), using cigars as an object in ars amandi and as a fetish.
Chocolate
Known by conquistadors in America, perceived as an aphrodisiac. At the court of King Louis XIV, it became a form of "love pantomime" - if the king gave it to her personally, it meant an invitation to the bedroom; if the lady accepted her, it meant consent.
dildo
Artificial member, mostly made of plastic, used in masturbatory behaviors as well as heterosexual and homosexual.
Electronic sexual partner
It means "partner", which is a product of human technology, most often a game hero, computer games about sexual content and character (eg, fun in striptease), in which participants must perform specific tasks, answer questions. This creates an appearance of contact based on a machine-controlled dialogue, as well as stimulation with visual stimuli, eg fragments of the body on a computer screen, and less often with auditory - sexual sounds. This is a new cultural phenomenon, which in excess may lead to the hitherto unknown addictions of sexual habits and disorders in the ability to make contact with another person, including sexual and interpersonal communication.
Sexual accessories - an encyclopedia from J to Z
yohimbine
Alkaloids from the bark of the corynanthe yohimbe plant, a stimulating erection center and ejaculation in the spinal cord, work on the sympathetic ends of the blood vessels of the member; the drug is recommended for impotence and for women with weakened vaginal feeling; it is not indicated in the neurotic impotence and in those suffering from hypertensive disease and cardiac arrhythmias.
condom
An agent often used for its high effectiveness, both in the prevention of pregnancy, as well as in the prevention of infections with diseases that are sexually transmitted, including AIDS. The condoms are made of thin latex or plastic, usually covered additionally with a spermicide.Currently, condoms are sold in various sizes, colors and textures. For this method to be completely reliable and effective condom can not be outdated, but it should be moist and free of air, which protects it from breaking inside the vagina. The condom should be applied to the erectile member just before intercourse.
Sexually stimulating drugs
Drugs used to treat reduced libido - hypolibidemia. These include aphrodisiacs, ginseng root, kola nuts, vitamins, testes extracts, kantharidin, yohimbine and others.
Spanish bow tie
An agent that increases sexual desire. Acid anhydride from the Spanish fly, it stimulates nerve endings and mucous membranes of the genitourinary system. Currently, the Spanish bow tie is rarely used due to complications such as: inflammation of the urinary tract, gastrointestinal tract, painful erections of the member and many others.
orchidometer
A device used to measure the size of nuclei. It is a series of plastic or wooden, graduated discs of various sizes to which the size of the nuclei is compared. These measurements are useful for determining the boys' maturation stages.
Chastity belt
Otherwise called guardian of virtue, guardian of purity, garter of Venus or a jealous castle. A device forged from a metal, applied by a woman to her external genital organs during her absence, in order to protect herself from betrayal and to prevent masturbation. The first mentions of virtue belts come from the 12th century. Even at the end of the 19th century, leaflets with virtues in France were distributed, and in 1903 Mrs. Schafer in Germany applied for a patent for a chastity belt with a lock and a key to protect fidelity in marriage.
Members' prostheses
Diversified in structure and quality of operation, plastic devices placed in the cavernous body of a member, enabling sexual intercourse for an erection unable man.
Sexual symbols
Signs and objects having a conventional sexual meaning. The sexual relationship between the sexual symbol and their content can be completely voluntary or based on the existence of similarity, eg in the art of India, the shell symbolizes the female sexual organs.
Vibrator
The device in the shape of a penis, of various sizes, from a variety of materials, can be, for example, with tabs, fulfilling a substitute function, instead of a relationship with a man.
Wirylizator
A device enabling intercourse with no member erection and / or incomplete erection. Most often used in organic erectile dysfunction when prognosis as to the possibility of curing is bad and the patient does not have sufficient financial means to apply other methods. The vaporizer is made of plastic, it is placed on the member's shaft.
The slogans were prepared on the basis of: Zbigniew Lew-Starowicz: Love and Sex. Encyclopedic dictionary. Wroclaw 1999
