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Speaker 1: It's ready. Are you welcome to stuff you should know

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Speaker 1: from house Stuff Works dot Com. Hey, and welcome to

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Speaker 1: the podcast. I'm Josh Clark. There's Chuck Bryant. Welcome yourself, buddy.

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Speaker 1: Welcome Josh, Thank you, Chuck. Sure that felt pretty good? Actually,

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Speaker 1: did it? Just try it? Try it? Welcome yourself. Welcome Chuck.

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Speaker 1: How do you feel relaxed? Good? Good? Yeah, it has

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Speaker 1: a nice effect. It does you know what it doesn't

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Speaker 1: have a nice effect. It depends on what you're talking about. Okay,

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Speaker 1: well I'll just tell you. Okay, Spanish fly. But it

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Speaker 1: turns out I did a little research on this. Um

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Speaker 1: I found out that Spanish flight is not even a fly.

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Speaker 1: It's a type of beetle, true and the active ingredient

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Speaker 1: it's actually crushed up, dried and crushed up beatles powdered

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Speaker 1: correct powder. And the reason they powder the beatles is

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Speaker 1: because they're trying to get to this um, this acid

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Speaker 1: that the beatle emits when it's um scared, when it's

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Speaker 1: it's threatened. And this acid, actually, you know, has long

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Speaker 1: been thought to create amorousness in people. But that's bunk. Correct.

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Speaker 1: I can tell you the reason they they they thought

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Speaker 1: they were aroused. They're actually confusing euro genital tract irritation.

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Speaker 1: This stuff actually burns from the inside out. Yeah, and

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Speaker 1: it can actually cause kidney damage and I think convulsions

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Speaker 1: and death. No, Spanish fly, you should never take this

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Speaker 1: for any reason. No, so, of course, you know, as

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Speaker 1: as you know I I'd like to do lots of research.

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Speaker 1: It's like my thing is right, Um, I started researching

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Speaker 1: aphrodisiacs in general, and here we are at this podcast

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Speaker 1: intro there, thank you. I believe the word comes from

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Speaker 1: the Greek goddess of love, Aphrodite. Is that right? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: that's what I hear. And an aphrodisiac, by definition, is

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Speaker 1: an element that evokes or stimulates, uh, sexual desire. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: we should probably make the distinction because I think a

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Speaker 1: lot of people think aphrodisiacs um are are performance sexual

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Speaker 1: performance enhancing compound or whatever, right, and not true at all,

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Speaker 1: Like a viagra would definitely not be considered an aphrodisiac. No, no,

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Speaker 1: so uh, nor would Spanish fly right. Correct. Well, let's

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Speaker 1: talk about sexual arousal chuck, Okay, all right, let's just

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Speaker 1: keep it cool, Chuck, if I had a dime for

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Speaker 1: every time he told me that I would keep it cooler.

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Speaker 1: Let's talk about sexual arousal keeping cool, okay, gotcha? Um? So,

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Speaker 1: medically speaking, sexual arousal um begins when we take in

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Speaker 1: something through one of our senses, um, that that we

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Speaker 1: find sexually stimulating, right, yes, And then all of a sudden,

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Speaker 1: the limbic lobe kicks in. Right, That's where it all starts.

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Speaker 1: This is part of the brain's reward center, and it's activated,

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Speaker 1: and uh, it says, hey, I am sexually stimulated. So

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Speaker 1: down to the blood vessels in the pelvic area, and

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Speaker 1: it says open, sesame, and the blood vessels open and

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Speaker 1: all this blood comes rushing in. And even better, because

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Speaker 1: this wouldn't do a whole lot, the blood vessels close

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Speaker 1: essentially keeping the blood well not trapped. But well, yeah,

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Speaker 1: I say, trapped is fun? Okay, I guess that just

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Speaker 1: has a negative implication, right. Well, whether whether it's trapped

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Speaker 1: an erection in women as well. Yeah. I was surprised

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Speaker 1: to find this as well. The clearter is actually goes

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Speaker 1: So all of a sudden you are turned on and

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Speaker 1: other physiological responses going on when you're when you're sexually aroused, right,

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Speaker 1: that's what I'm told. Can you fill me in on those?

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Speaker 1: I certainly can. Well, your heart rate increases, UM, and

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Speaker 1: And it could do this in one of two ways, correct,

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Speaker 1: through the mind, like basically recreating that or stimulating that

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Speaker 1: right absolutely. For instance, something that might increase blood flow

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Speaker 1: so that has the effect of creating desire, right, okay,

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