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Italy

In ancient Italy, girls wore basil around their necks as a love charm.

According to the Roman poet Horace, liver is an aphrodisiac. My bubbe Pearl Gottler would plotz.

Jerome, the saint who translated the Bible into Latin and lived in Italy in the 4th century, forbade nuns to eat beans. Why? Because "in paribus genitalibus titillationes producunt." I think you know what I'm talking about.

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note: Much of the historical data here comes from the 1962 Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs by H.E. Wedeck.