Aphrodisiacs Anonymous

Image of Mina Model by Emmanuel Poncelet from Belgium.

Here’s a snip from this week’s SF Chronicle column, Aphrodisiacs Anonymous: Violet Blue thinks SF’s aphrodisiac festival is sure to arouse, and asks chefs how. It’s making me hungry just posting this snip:

Got any space in your copulation calendar for some sexually stimulating food? When I first heard about next Monday’s A Food Affaire, I thought whoa — an aphrodisiac feast and intentionally flirty atmosphere event — in San Francisco? As if ramping up the sexiness of The City were even possible, or practical: With so much sexual energy here, such a thing might cause too much friction between space and time, or attract a meteor to smack our Sodom by the Bay. Just to get a piece of the action, at the very least. On Monday, Sept. 22, the Golden Gate Restaurant Association (GGRA) presents A Food Affaire: Twenty of San Francisco’s finest chefs are going to make the most sexually arousing ingestibles they can imagine. The epicenter of all this delicious decadence will be Ruby Skye, but there’s no doubt that next Monday that particular kitchen’s heat will be felt by denizens citywide.

I’m not concerned; OK, I’m a little worried that it’ll spoil (NSFW) Folsom (or that some impatient couple will use rose-petal Jell-O as lube in the washroom). But I’m really excited to see what our city’s chefs come up with when their wildest aphrodisiac imaginations get to come out and play for a night.

Aphrodisiacs are ingestibles — foods, liquids, herbs, edibles, lickables — that enhance or possibly cause sexual arousal. We all know that sexual arousal starts in the brain (most of the time), so it’s a no-brainer that if you believe that chocolate will make you mindlessly horny, even the suggestion that it might, will do the trick (right before you do the trick).

But do they really get more than your heart pumping? (…read more.)

Here’s the event’s cheesy but kinda cute promo video, just for kicks: