Aphrodisiac segment of Woody Allen's "Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex* (*But Were Afraid to Ask)" is called "Do Aphrodisiacs Work?", and casts Allen as a court jester trying to seduce the queen. Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry, , (2006). Publisher: Blue Deck Press, , (2011) Aphrodisiac An aphrodisiac or love drug is a substance that increases libido when consumed. Aphrodisiacs are distinct from substances that address fertility issues or secondary sexual (dys)function such as erectile dysfunction. The name comes from the Greek ἀφροδισιακόν, "aphrodisiakon", i.e. "sexual, aphrodisiac", from "aphrodisios", i.e. "pertaining to Aphrodite", the Greek goddess of love.
Literature in the 1970s such as those of Virginia Woolf, Agatha Christie, and J. R. R. Tolkien. Books discussing sex such as "Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex* (*But Were Afraid to Ask)" were popular as authors took advantage of the lifted censorship laws on literature in the sixties. Exposés such as "All the President's Men" were also popular. Self-help and diet books replaced the cookbooks and home fix-it manuals that topped the sixties's charts. After the experimentation and sexual offence subject matter that exemplified some of the sixties' most definitive works of literature, the early '70s brought a return to old-fashioned