num_pages: 336
description: This is a study of love potions and a survey of amatory mores through the ages. To recover or ensure physiological virility, man has frantically searched for and contrived the most amazing aids to amatory capacity. In particular, he has devised the philtre or love potion. And he has used such concoctions in various forms in all ages, in every country from Babylon to Spain, and in Arabia as well as in China. This book surveys this strange field and highlights its peculiarities and its fantasies, as well as its often warranted validity.
language: English
title: Love Potions through the ages
publisher: The Citadel Press