10 weird aphrodisiacs you probably don’t know about:

Introduction: Aphrodisiacs have been used for many years, either by people suffering from erectile dysfunction or people who want to increase their sexual virility. Their sources varied just as the demographic variation of their users; they are either plant or animal based. Plant sources are acceptable to many people. However, some animal sources not only are they weird, their effectiveness is also doubted by many. The Chinese have been accused of poaching rhinos for their horns, but if you think killing a rhino, remove its horn and use it in making aphrodisiacs is weird, below is a list of 10 weird aphrodisiac sources modern man is unlikely to use. 1. Crushed blister beetle: The blister beetle is a green colored insect also referred to as the Spanish fly. It contains a compound known as cantharidin which is a very powerful irritant. To make an aphrodisiac, the blister beetle was killed and crushed; it was then dried and ground into a fine powder. The formed powder was rubbed against the genital areas causing irritations. This resulted to an increase of blood flow causing a similar feeling to when a person is sexually excited. Use of the powder is very dangerous; intoxication can lead to death easily, it is poisonous and illegal to use. Places where crushed blister beetle was used include Spain where the witchdoctors mixed it with mole and bat blood to make love portions. Cases of deaths as a result of using crushed blister beetle occurred in Spain when Marquis spiked drinks of some prostitutes to have a sexual orgy. The prostitutes died and Marquis was arrested and imprisoned. 2. Tiger’s penis: According to the ancient Chinese medicine men, penis of a tiger is important in curing erectile dysfunctions and it is also useful in other therapeutic processes. Although modern medicine has not discovered special potency powers in a tiger’s penis, tigers are still hunted worldwide for their perceived abilities to cure erectile dysfunction. To make an aphrodisiac, the penis was cooked and served as soup. The animals are killed and consumed up to this date in Eastern Asian countries such as China. Although young people in these countries have embraced use of modern medicine to cure erectile dysfunction, old Chinese men are still skeptical, they prefer using traditional sources such as the tiger’s penis. Soup made from tigers’ penises is an expensive delicacy in China restaurants; customers place orders months before it can be available. The high demand has led to extensive poaching; the tiger is now an endangered species. Other tiger body parts used as aphrodisiac include bones and liver. 3. Snake Blood: In some Asian countries, snake blood was taken by men believing it would make them more potent. Snake blood is currently sold in places such as Saigon Bars and Restaurants. In these bars, snake blood is mixed with beers and wines and then sold over the counter. Although snakes are poisonous, cooking its meat neutralizes it, however, for the snake blood to serve its purpose, it has to be consumed raw. To remove the blood from its body, the snake’s head is chopped off and blood is drained into small glasses. To drink, the blood is mixed with bile and alcohol. According to the Chinese, snake blood is a cure to many sexual deficiencies including erectile dysfunction. Snakes’ poison is found in the head, by cutting it off, chances of ingesting poison are reduced, and however, sometimes the blood can have some poison in it. There are no specific preferred types of snakes as long as they are poisonous, some weird practices piercing the tail and sucking the blood from it. 4. Lizards: In Eastern Asian countries, lizards were also a source of aphrodisiacs. They were hunted, trapped, killed and consumed. The intestines were removed; body was dried, and then ground into a fine powder. The powder was then mixed with alcoholic drinks such as wine and alcohol and drunk. This practice was also prevalent in the Mediterranean parts of North African region and in European countries such as Sweden. Many people consumed it due to its ability to restore male virility. In India, a Hardwicke spiny tailed lizard was another aphrodisiac source. The Indians killed this type of lizard and extracted fat from its tail which was believed to be a cure to erectile dysfunction problems. These types of lizards are hunted up to this date in India. In case you meet a man chasing a spiny tailed lizard, he is just looking for a cure to his bedroom problems. 5. Ants: The black ant was the most sought animal by both men and women for its power as an aphrodisiac in increasing sex drive and helping its users gain more pleasure during lovemaking. Currently, traditional medicine men advertise the tiny ants as better alternatives to modern medication. Ants were widely used in countries such as China as aphrodisiacs. The polyhachis ant has high zinc content, which is an important mineral for it role in sperm and testosterone formation. It has been scientifically proven to have the highest zinc content of all living things. It is one of the few aphrodisiac sources you don’t have to think much about when using. To make an aphrodisiac, the ants were dried and then ground into a fine powder which was safely consumed alone or mixed with liquids. The ants were consumed across the two genders without medical complications. Black ants are used as aphrodisiac source up to date. 6. Donkey products: meat, milk and penis. Donkey meat, milk and penis were used to treat erectile dysfunctions and increase sexual virility among its users. In the ancient Chinese history, the donkey meat was marinated with tiger’s urine. The softened meat was cooked and consumed to increase sexual virility. The penis was boiled and served as soup to the consumers. Evidence that the penis also eaten does not exist although it is suspected it was also eaten. It is also believed that some people washed their private parts with the soup to feel sexually stimulated. To be used as an aphrodisiac, people either drunk or bathed in donkey’s milk; they claimed to feel sexual practice after bathing in it. In some religions, it is ungodly to consume donkey meat or any of its products. Donkey meat and milk have higher protein contents compared to similar products from other animals. This makes it a good aphrodisiac source. 7. Toads: Despite being poisonous, toads are valued by many people for being a source to many medicines believed to cure several diseases. Stories about people extracting aphrodisiacs from toad poison have been around for a long time. Those who consumed aphrodisiac from toads believed it contained cure for erectile dysfunction and boosted virility powers of the user. Toads contain poison similar to digitalis which if ingested in excess can lead to a cardiac arrest. Just as people use digitalis to cure heart related diseases, some people claim they can extract aphrodisiac safely from the toad venom. Ingestion of toad venom has led to several deaths across the world. Bufotenine an alkaloid found in toad’s skin is sold in drug streets of black market to be used as aphrodisiacs. Cases of deaths due to ingestion of toad related aphrodisiacs have been reported in countries such as West Indies, and thus the need to look for alternative sources. 8. Monkey Brain: Man will do anything to get sexual satisfaction and history can prove that. Some people compare consumption of monkey brain to consumption of human brain due to the close genetic relationship between the two. Despite the controversy, people in places such as Indonesia hunted monkey and ate their raw brains to cure their sexual deficiency related problems. The brains were consumed raw and the oddest thing was the fact that some people consumed the brain with the animal still alive. Monkey brains were believed to cure erectile dysfunction. Consuming of monkey brain is however dangerous, if a human being consumes brain from a monkey infected by Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, the virus is transferred to the eater. The disease has similar symptoms to mad cow diseases and uses the same mechanism just as the mad cow disease to move from one person to the other. It has not been scientifically proven that monkey brain cures erectile dysfunction. 9. Pangolin scales and fetuses: Pangolin is a desert animal whose whole body is covered in scales. In countries such as China, pangolins were killed; their scales were grounded into a fine powder which was believed to cure sexual virility problems. The pangolin fetus was also to contain some aphrodisiacs. Once killed, the scales were removed, it was then dissected and if pregnant, the fetus was used to make soup which was believed to increase and restore potency powers. Although described by many people as a gruesome delicacy, the fetus soup heals erectile dysfunctions. Extensive hunting of pangolins for the scales and fetus led to a drastic reduction in its population and currently, it is among world’s endangered species. Pangolins are protected by wildlife agencies in countries where they exist, although poachers kill them whenever they have a chance. They have a ready market and fetch good prices in china although they are traded in the black market. 10. Hyena: penis and eyeballs. Hyena was another important animal whose parts were used as aphrodisiac sources. The hyena penis was cooked and then covered with honey: this aphrodisiac was so strong, it was believed to stimulate men desire to have sex even when not in sex moods. The hyena penis was mostly consumed in the early Greek and Roman empires. In the two kingdoms, hyena were hunted and fattened: every part of the hyena’s body was used to cure a certain disease. Hyena eyeballs were another source of aphrodisiac, the eyes were gorged out of the skull, boiled and people ate them to increase their sexual virility. The sight of man feeding on a hyena’s penis or eyeballs is disgusting, it however depicts, and the extent humans had to undergo to correct their sexual deficiencies before modern medicine came to effect. Whether these body parts cured the erectile dysfunction and other sexual related diseases or they were just myths are difficult to determine.

7 animals, 7 sex astounding sex facts.

You might have watched movies, clips, seen in the jungle animals mating, compared with how humans mate and so nothing weird. However, did you ever know what it takes for some animals before a young one can come up. However, has it ever crossed your mind, the different adaptations animals have evolved to mate successfully, have you ever thought of an animal with no vagina, or spiky penis, did you know the animals with the longest penis or testicles are not necessarily the largest animals you know about? Here are seven animals and seven sex facts you don’t know about them: 1. Bedbugs have no vaginas: In reproduction, bedbugs are the most interesting animals. The male bedbugs are equipped with perforated penises which pierce through the female’s body and inject sperms in it. The sperms can be injected anywhere in the body: heart, legs, kidneys, legs without harming the insect. As a result, some people argue bedbugs don’t have while others argue they have multiple vaginas. The number of scars on her body is a proof of males she has slept with. Bedbugs are bisexual and since it is not easy to identify a female, sometimes male bedbugs engage in beastly acts, some males have a secondary vagina on their backs for homosexual acts. 2. Bean weevils have spiky penises: People complain about the sex experience being bad or unpleasant, the female seed beetle (Callosobruchus maculates) case is even worse. She has to contend with a spiky penis and the injuries that follow after mating. Spikes are argued to be an evolution adaptation that prevents the female from future mating and also allowing her to take care of her eggs. The spiky penis is essential to male dominance and success since males with longest spikes fertilize more eggs compared to those with smaller; size really matters. Role of the spikes remains unclear although some people argue it is for anchoring the male during mating. 3. The black spotted hyena has the largest clitoris: You all know what a clitoris is, but anyway; clitoris is a female sexual organ, at the beginning of development, the embryo has no gender. As it prepares to develop either to a female or male, bud tissues form which later develop into a penis or milk glands. At the initial development stages, male hormones trigger penis development while the female stop the development of the penis bud; it remains a vestigial clitoris. The female black spotted hyena has more testosterone than the male; as a result, her clitoris is not vestigial and continues to grow after birth. You can imagine what happened when Europeans came to Africa and saw a hyena giving birth and thought male hyenas actually give birth. The first birth is a difficult experience for the female hyena, but since it breaks the clitoris, subsequent births are usually easier. 4. Spider has a detachable penis: Although mating is for reproduction and pleasure purposes, it can be dangerous if your partner intends to kill you on climax. When mating for the first or probably the last time, the male spider has to be very careful. The spider is a sexual cannibal; as a result, the male has adapted by having a detachable penis. The male spider has a sperm transferring organ known as ‘palp’ similar to a penis, it detaches when the male disengages from the female body either after being pushed away, eaten up or ran away to risk another day. The detached penis is essential for prolonging mating period; it continues to pump sperms on the female body long after its owner has moved on. 5. Bush crickets have the heftiest ‘balls’ testicles: Probably thought of testicles size of a human head, it might only be 3 centimeters long however, the bush cricket is the most loaded animal in relation to its body weight. Its testicles carry 14% of its whole body mass. To put it in a clear perspective, a normal man weighing 75kilograms would have a 10.5 kilogram load between his legs. Just like big animals do not have the largest testicles, bush crickets are not the largest sperm producers. The testes size is dependent on females’ promiscuity. The females mate with around 23 different males in their 2months adult life, as a result, males have to preserve sperm for the many partners he is likely to have, as a result, they produce sperms in small quantities. 6. Ducks have the longest penis among the vertebrates: Although most birds don’t have penises, the ones that have compensate for the rest. The Argentinean blue bill duck has a penis longer than its body size. Proportionate to its body size, the bird has the longest penis. It measures 41cm that amounts to carrying a dick almost its body size. When relaxed, the penis is coiled inside in a cock-screw manner ready to explode anytime. The females are adapted to this morphological feature, they have a cock-screwed vagina but in the opposite direction; during coitus, the two do not struggle much. 7. Barnacles have the longest penis in the animal kingdom: Finding a perfect lover is never an easy task especially when you live trapped in a home you cannot get out of. Barnacles live trapped between rocks; they don’t have a choice on their neighbors are, they are stuck with them forever. However, the choice of who to mate is never a problem, barnacles have the longest penis in the animal kingdom with a potential of stretching 30 times its body size. As a result, barnacles reach and mate their partners without the need to leave the comfort of their homes. You can imagine of a whale with a potential of stretching its penis 30 times; it would cause a tsunami.

Should the same laws which prohibit the sale and consumption of heroin be applied to tobacco?

There have been arguments and counter arguments on whether same laws which prohibit sale and consumption of heroin should be applied to tobacco. My argument is to the affirmative, yes, they should. The same laws should be applied; tobacco contains nicotine which after prolonged exposure leads to addiction results to overdependence just as heroin does. When nicotine is absorbed by the lungs, it’s transported to the brain through the blood stream. With time, the brain becomes overly dependent on nicotine and cannot function effectively when not adequately available. That’s why some people complain of headache if they stay for a long duration without smoking. The laws must be the same for all addictive products. Tobacco and heroin use have similar effects on the user, both present a danger of addiction and same laws should be applied to protect the public from these substances. Tobacco must not be protected by the government due to the high tax remittances cigarette companies make every year, the citizens need to be protected too. Tobacco is so dangerous, it affects even those who do not consume it; research shows million of Americans die every year due to exposure to smoke emitted by tobacco smokers. Same laws if not stricter laws should apply to tobacco just as in heroin. Not all natural products are good; tobacco should not be treated any better. Just like tobacco, cocaine is a product from nature cultivated in some parts of South America. Its effects are well known and laws have been implemented to restrict overuse of the substance. It is popular drug and used for medicinal purposes something I haven’t heard from tobacco. Restriction on cigarette selling will lead to a decline in tobacco smoking. Sometimes people smoke due to easy access of tobacco products. If similar laws were applied, temptations to smoke would be less.

A Day in Life of a Morgue Assistant:

Death is scary to many people, a sad way of ending life but provides means of making a living to some people; morgue assistants. Unknown to many, it’s among the best paying jobs which does not require education certificates or work experience. Morgue assistants are very important, they are the mortuary housekeepers. They make death appear reasonable and an eventuality people have to pass through for others to make a living. Their important role is to make sure human dignity is maintained even at death. The following is a guide of a day in the life of a morgue assistant: Cleaning and maintenance: Mortuary are among businesses with a very high professional setting, as a result, people who run morgue businesses ensure the outside remains as clean as the inside. A morgue assistant spend the early part of the day up the morgue and ensuring mortuary vehicles such as hearse vehicles are regularly serviced. If not having a busy schedule, he sweeps the compound, perform landscaping to make sure the mortuary displays a clean image. Removing the body: After a person has died, the morgue assistant using the mortuary van picks the body from its location and transfers it to the morgue. In the morgue, depending with specific morgues, the body is cleaned, and transferred to the refrigerator awaiting examinations, burial or cremation. It is the duty of a morgue assistant to pick unclaimed bodies. Unclaimed bodies are transferred to govern owned morgues by cops until its claimed. Preparing the body for examination: Before the pathologist arrives at the morgue to conduct postmortems, the assistant ensures all tools of trade are available and in working condition. This includes sharpening knives and scalpels. After the pathologist has arrived and ready, the morgue assistant transfers the body from the refrigerator to the examining table. During the body examination process, he assists the pathologist to record any vital information in regards to the body. After body examination, the morgue assistant cleans the used knives, scalpels, trays, dirty linens and lastly the examining body. Preparing the remains for burial: Some states require morgue assistants to have embalming knowledge. It is important to know how to prepare the remains before they are picked for burial. To learn how to embalm a body successfully, the morgue assistant watches a professional embalmer perform and learnt from the act. In preparing the remains for burial, he cleans the body, dresses it and beautifies it during visitation and viewing. He is also responsible for releasing the body to the rightful and authorized owners. Participating in funeral services: The morgue assistant also prepares and attends funeral services. He is charged with setting the floral arrangement, lighting of candles and directing mourners. At the end of a requiem service, he closes the casket, drives the hearse to the cremation or grave site. He then lowers the body to the grave, picks his items and heads back to the morgue to end his day. He goes home at the evening, awaiting the following day to perform similar functions.

Weird things morgue attendants do:

Death across many cultures is among the most dreaded occurrence. The reason being the unanswered questions death leaves people with. Many people are afraid of death to such an extent you would think it is a contagious disease. The moment the spirit leaves the body, people view the lifeless body as a monster. As a result, people transfer it to the Morgue to await burial or cremation; it’s left in the care of a morgue attendant. Morgue attendants are charged with the responsibility of preserving the body to ensure human dignity is not lost until the body has been disposed off. To be a morgue attendant, you need to have some guts, a hard stomach but did you know some morgue attendants not only do they undertake some weird things in the morgue but also do weird and odd things with the corpses: Sex with corpses: There have been reported cases people pressing charges against morgue attendants whom in their lives have disturbed the peace of a corpse by having sex with them. A good example was in the case of Kenneth Douglas a 60 year old American who was charged in an Ohio court for having sex with a girl who had been murdered and her body had badly decayed in the early 1990. The man confessed to have slept with at least 100 corpses although under the influence of alcohol and drugs. He could not have been found out had the semen DNA found in the dead girl not matched his. Extracting and selling corpse organs: Illegal trade in human organs has been ongoing throughout the world especially by morgue attendants who collude with organ brokers to remove and sell specific body organs. These cases are more prevalent in poor countries especially in Africa due to poor infrastructure. Majority of hospitals in Africa, for example a National Hospital in Kenya is yet to adopt technologies used in identifying unclaimed bodies. As a result, this creates room for illicit trade in human body organs to thrive. There is need to equip hospitals with biometric facilities to help in identification process. Mortuary attendants in these places have admitted transferring body organs or even swapping blood samples in order to help family of a person who died under alcohol influence; the swap blood samples with that of people who were not drunk when they died. Similar cases have been reported in the US where organs and brain parts of an infant were sold by a morgue assistant without the consent of the family in California. Stealing from the dead: Morgue attendants have also been accused and charged for stealing gold watches, clothes and shoes from dead people. Instead of undressing the corpse and keep all the items collected together for the families to pick, some opt to make these corpse belongings theirs. A good example was reported in Zambia where a nurse was jailed after the cops testified how they demolished the nurse’s pit latrine to recover a corpse National ID and a National Pension Scheme Card. In the US, a similar case was reported of a morgue attendant who was charged for stealing from a dead man, selling his credit cards and forging his signature to loot some $ 300,000 from him. Eating in the morgue: After working for several years, it appears mortuary attendants lose their sense of humanity, smell and taste. It is not unusual to see a morgue attendant taking a snack or drinking tea next to a dead smelling body without even blinking an eye.

Interesting things about JFK you did not know:

When you hear about John Fitzgerald Kennedy commonly JFK, you think about how the 35th United States president was assassinated. A closer look at the private life of the former president reveals the man was not your ordinary person. Was he even fit to hold office of the most powerful person in the world, my answer would be no, but yes, he was the US president. As a young man, JFK had many health problems, brought up by an adulterous father and a mother who kept worrying about his son’s sickness. How JFK managed to keep his private life a secret from the American media and public remains an intriguing issue to many people. Latest revelation of his promiscuous behaviors has led to mixed reactions on the real JFK. Below are some facts you will ever read about John, F. Kennedy. 1. Suffered health problems since childhood: The former president was diagnosed with Addison disease at a very young age. He spent much of his young life on drugs such as painkillers while at the same time battling digestion problems he often suffered from. His mother was ever worried that his young son would never grow to maturity. Throughout his adult life, he suffered from nasty venereal diseases, infected his wife and his long line of lovers. It is said that JFK believed having sex with different strange women was the only way he could cure his re-occurring migraines. He was such a nasty president I guess. 2. Was a drug addict: When JFK ran and won the American presidency, he was afraid his poor health would fail him. He hid his health problems from the public throughout his life; probably had the public known of his problems, Kennedy would never have been nominated leave alone elected as the US president. He suffered from insomnia, back pains sustained during the 2nd World War, as a result, he used energy boosting drugs to relief him off from his pain and agony. He had a prescription from his doctor to take testosterone in order to build his muscles. However, the drug cannot be blamed for his adulterous life. His addiction began long time ago when he was young; he used corticosteroids for his Addison disease, painkillers for his back injuries, antibiotics for urinary tract infection, antispasmodic for his colitis problems and antihistamines to control his allergies. 3. Compulsive womanizer: The latest emergence of JFK extra marital affairs was a bitter pill to swallow to majority of the Americans. It is hard to know where the problem started and was it as a result of the prescribed testosterone and other energy boosting drugs. The former president is accused of a secret first marriage with movie stars such as Marlene Dietrich and Marilyn Monroe. He is also accused of having White House flings with an intern and event press secretary to his wife. JFK was described as a compulsive womanizer whose insatiable sex desires was fueled by personal traumas he had faced early in his life such as an adulterous father and an anxious mother. 4. Nobody was charged for his assassination: Lee Harvey Oswald the man who was arrested 70 minutes after JFK was assassinated never had a chance for a full trial. His arrest was based on evidence given that he had shot an officer in Dealy Plaza. He was arrested and charged with murder of the officer and assassination of the president. However, as he was being transferred from the Dallas Police Headquarter to the County Jail, Oswald was fatally shot and wounded. He was taken unconscious to Parkland Memorial Hospital the same hospital JFK had been taken hours earlier. Efforts to save his life proved futile, he died before he could plead to murder charges or probably bring an opening in discovering who killed JFK and why. 5. Killing the president was not a federal crime: Although several US presidents had been assassinated or attempts had been made on their lives, the American lawmakers had not seen the need to make it a federal crime to kill the president or the vice president. The warren commission after investigating and hearing provided evidence on the president’s assassination; it recommended it be classified as a federal crime to kill either the president or his vice president. It is surprising how ignorant the American law makers were given that JFK was not the first president to be assassinated. 6. He wasn’t a native American: Although born in Massachusetts in the 1917 in a family of nine children, his four grandparents were children of immigrants from Ireland. At 43, JFK was the youngest president to be elected in the 20th century. His grandfather John F. Fitzgerald was the first Boston mayor born to Irish immigrants; his election paved way and created a foundation for JFK rise to presidency. He was the only Roman Catholic to have ever been elected as the US president and lastly, the only president to have won a Pulitzer award. While Kennedy was regarded as one of the best US presidents, latest revelations of his private life has led to mixed reactions with some describing him as a maniac, adulterer and a betrayer who never deserved to lead the US.