3 | SoyĮastern monks eat soy because, they believe, it keeps down the sexual urges. And yet… if you drink one, you’re probably more likely to have sex than the girl at the other end of the bar who’s only drinking water because she has to get up early in the morning to run with her marathon training group. So a gin and tonic actually has both of its ingredients working against your libido. (I believe the medical term is “whiskey dick.”) The gin is a second strike, because, while alcohol is a key ingredient in about 99.3 percent of the world’s first-time sexual encounters, drinking too much alcohol can chemically inhibit the sex drive. Quinine (which I’ve discussed before, in my White Men Can’t Jump-inspired 11 Foods That Start with the Letter Q list) is the flavoring in tonic water - and also associated with lowering testosterone levels. His other big contribution to the anaphrodiasic movement? When he was running the Battle Creek Sanitarium he made sure people were constantly getting yogurt enemas. He invented Corn Flakes cereal because he thought a bland, sugarless, meatless breakfast would be the key to keeping down the urges. He believed that sex and masturbation were the causes of health (physical, mental and spiritual) problems… so people needed to crush their desires. John Harvey Kellogg, the man behind Kellogg’s cereals, was one of the most prominent kill-your-sex-drive crusaders ever. (Rim shot!) Say hi to Kevin Eubanks and the Toni– er– Primetime Band! 1 | Corn Flakes And two: If you really want to stop having sex, go get married. One: It seems very few of these have been tested and basically none have been definitively proven - like aphrodisaics, the scientific merits of eating these foods to achieve sexual goals lies somewhere between syllogism and placebo. Two quick things before we get started on the list of 11 foods that can curb your sex drive or libido. 11 Anaphrodisiac foods that lower your libido There aren’t any lists of these online (outside of a few that recycle the names of a bunch of herbs that neither you, your holistic guru nor your Native American shaman have ever heard of)… so I decided to compile one. And after doing some searching through hardcore religious message boards and Yahoo Answers (I’ll withhold judgmental comments about the commonalities therein), I found there’s a term for these foods. Yesterday, I started wondering about foods that would do the opposite. It seems everyone wants to down a few oysters and then go have themselves some sex. There are hundreds of thousands of lists of aphrodisiacs on the Internet. How anaphrodisiac foods such as graham crackers, licorice, gin and tonics and more can kill your libido.
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