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Monday, October 17, 1977
University Daily Kansan
Wide variety of aphrodisiacs raises lovers' hopes
Love.
Wars were fought for it. Frontiers were conquered for it. Legends arose from it. Swashbuckling knights slew savage dragons for it.
Art has reflected it. Contemporary music fills the air with it and special days are celebrated for it. Through the ages, man has not solved the mysterious riddle of it.
But he has tried.
even today people still seek ways to heighten their libido and find ways to attract the opposite sex. Seekers of aphrodiasia, or sexual stimulants, are not rare.
The ginseng plant has been rediscovered by many people as an aphrodiasic.
SVEREAL AREA DRUGSstores carry ginseng in capsules, tablets, powders, and
Ginseng has long been used in Korea and China for medicinal and virility reasons, according to Debbie Pless, a pharmacist at Round Corner Drugs, 801 Massachusetts St.
The ginseng root, used to make teas, is shaped somewhat like the human body, Picea.
"A lot of people come in and buy it, but it's "very expensive," she said. "It sells for about 45 cents a cup and $8 for a bottle of 60 tablets."
Damiana, another supposed aphrodite, also is being sold. Damiana, Pleiss said, a powerful staminal with reputed maculic acid in the dried leaves of a Mexican plant.
Pleiss said she had heard of someone who had used Damiana and found it to be very stimulating.
"IT WORKS sort of like Spanish fly," she said.
Spanish fly, or cantharides, is a white powder made from the remains of a species of beetle. It is an irritant and has been used as an aphrodisiac for centuries.
Aphrodiasis have been used for three purposes: to restore exasured virility in men, to overcome cases of sterility or to arouse women to sexual excitation.
Cuttish fish, deer sperm certain bones of a frog, oysters, alcohol, the livers of executed
criminals, marjuanja, the sap of the flewwort plant, mineral waters, crab apples, onions, crocodile teeth and tails and cucumbers are legendary aphroditeas.
The word aphrodite comes from the name of the Greek goddess of love, Aphrodite.
THE GREEKS mainly were concerned with increasing the virility of men. Women were seen as being sexually ravenous by nature. Greek men of all castes bought women in the wealthy low-making was seen as a religious rite of paying homage to Aphrodite.
Even now, men are buying aphrodites, according to Suzanne Boutin, a clerk at the fashion store.
Boutin said that many men about 30 years old were coming to the health food store to buy the products.
But Boutin said it probably was just a fad, like Vitamin E.
"More men usually buy it than women
because it's supposed to rejuvenate the male organs," she said.
MARK WILLIAMS, a clerk at Bokonon, 12,
Eighth St., said the only aphrodite
survivor from the battle.
"Just about everything we sell could be considered an aphrodisia. Anything that would make you healthier could be comfortable and more sexually attractive," she said.
Williams said Orgy Butter was a lotion that prolonged sexual activity in men during intercourse. He said he carried Orgy Butter fragrances—mint, grape and chocolate.
Paula Hughes, a clerk at White Light Paraphernaal, 704 Mass. St. said a product sold there was repaid to have an assistance effect and produce a "legal high."
Engineers say K-10 to open in December
Virgil A. Holdridge, county engineer for Johnson County, said the section in Johnson County also needed shoulders, signs and going before it would be ready for public use.
Commuters from points east of Lawrence may have to wait two more months before that magic ribbon of highway, known as new Kansas Highway 10, is completed.
Ron Sherard, a civil engineer for Douglas County, said the major part of the grading work was done for the section in Douglas County and was still without shoulders and signs.
According to area engineers' estimates, the last two sections of the four-lane road connecting Lawrence to Kansas Highway 7, located in Barrard, barring poor weather, around December.
When completed, the 7.3-mile section in Douglas County and a two-mile portion in Johnson County will link Lawrence with a stretch of highway west from the junction of K-10 and K-7 to a point about four miles east of Dudora, which was opened November 1976.
HOWEVER, SOME travelers, including Britt Nichols, a commuting KU senior from Olathe, that despite warning signs prohibiting travel, he had driven over the
sections not open to the public and attested to their near-completion.
people drive it all the time," Nichols said, "You can tell there have been people on the new part because you can see the tire tracks."
Nichols said that he looked forward to the completion of the road because it would be much safer.
Phil Meiers, a KU junior communicating from Kansas City, Kan., agreed that the added safety probably would be one of the goals he intended to images to having the entire road finished.
"The new road will especially benefit a few places which are really dangerous, like the intersection of K-10 and the ammunition plant," he said.
Meiers said the old route was shorter, but he preferred to take the new portion of four lane K-10 that is now completed rather than risk the possibility of a speeding ticket or getting stuck behind a slow driver on the old, two-lane K-10.
Although the new K-10, when fully completed, may reduce some of the hassles of commuters, Nichols said, he still might take on a 10-route when traffic is light and he is late.
"You've really got to cheat as much as possible being a commuter."
Protest disrupts Carter's church
"But the Secret service didn't feel I was in danger, and neither did I."
THE STUDENTS complained of having to move their cars to prevent the cars from being towed. Argeringer said. In these cases, the students wanted to use their cars for weekend use only.
Mayor Marnie Argersinger said she recently had recommended that the Traffic Safety Commission study the ordinance to height of compromising the current limit.
"I have a feeling that the commission will compromise with the complaints and the demands of our client."
Five of the demonstrators, who in-
tended to deploy the neutron bomb,
appointed deployment of the neutron bomb.
Argerisinger said complaints from older people stemmed from the problems the government had with it.
"Old ladies, for example, have a problem getting out of the house when there is snow on the ground," Argersinger said. "When they have to move their cars around the block to avoid the car being towed, the ordinance becomes a nuisance to them."
Argeringsaid said she had been receiving complaints about the ordinance from students and older members of the community, who park along city streets.
"The ordinance has been around for 15 or 20 years, and the major thrust of it is to avoid old clunkers being left on the streets for an extended period of time," she said.
Ordinance 4854 makes it unlawful to park on streets for any continuous period of more than
Barbara Akagi, chairman of the Traffic Safety Commission, said the ordinance study was on the agenda for the next commission meeting. Nov. 7. The traffic commission meets the first Monday of each month.
Because of recent complaints, the city commission has recommended that an ordinance limiting parking on streets to 40 vehicles be introduced. Safety Commission for possible changes.
The akagi has declined comment on the ordinance until it is discussed in the manuscript.
WASHINGTON (AP) - Protesters against the neutron bomb disrupted church services yesterday attended by President Jimmy Carter. Some were gagged, wrestled down of the church by ushers. Carter said later the demonstrators were "fine young people."
were arrested and taken to a police station,
three of them in handcuffs.
"I agree with their objective in eliminating nuclear weapons," the President said. "I think they were mistaken in to try disrupt the church services.
Lawrence residents may be seeing a change in the current 48-hour parking limit.
Police L.1. Donald L. Forreit said the five were being booked for a "disturbing a police officer."
"Sisters and brothers," he said, "we address you lovingly . . . Did not Jesus mean what He said when He taught us to present themselves? And did He live what he said?
THE PRESIDENT and his wife attended adult Bible class in the back balcony, then took their usual seats in the sixth pew on the right side of the 175-year-old stone-and-block church, attended by the late President Harry S. Truman.
THE NEUTRON bomb is a high-radiation, low impact weapon, designed principally as a missile warhead. Because of the large amount of radiation it emits, it is used in killing human beings, but its relatively small explosion leaves buildings intact.
As Pastor Charles Trentham stepped into the pulpit to begin his sermon, the first of the demonstrators, dressed in slacks and a black vest, and began to read the anti-bomb statement.
Another usher tried to take the statement from her hand, then sat her down in the pew. The usher sent next to her and still another guest in another pew stood up and read on.
At that point, an usher grabbed the protester, put his hand over the man's mouth, pulled the demonstrator out of the pew and led him to the door.
Carter has sent Defense Secretary Harold Brown to Europe in an effort to convince North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) members to accept the weapon as part of their defense arsenals against invasion by the Soviet pact nations of eastern Europe.
A second protester, Elizabeth McAllister, associated with Philip Berrigan at the University of Baltimore in a military in Baltimore, stood in another pew across the aisle and continued the reading.
"Christians cannot love their enemies and still threaten them with nuclear death."
Carter, his wife Rosalynn, nine-year-old daughter Amy and a group of friends from Georgia, including Mrs. Carter's former Bible teacher, entered the First Baptist Church, where the President and his family usually worship, at about 10 a.m.
But most NATO reaction has been against the weapon. Some critics call it inhumane. Others say it would increase the chances of a nuclear confrontation. Carter aides have said he would decide before the end of the year whether to produce and deploy it.
He was gagged by another usher. The demonstrator struggled to free himself. Two elderly women scurried out of the way. Additionally, that protester was led to the door, too.
New ordinance aimed at repeal of parking limit
In all, about a half dozen of the demonstrators, whose spokesman identified them as members of the Atlantic Life Community, an alliance of anti-nuclear weapon groups along the east coast, were silenced by ushers and escorted out.
The product, Lettuce, comes in two flavors, hashish and opium. The hashish flavor contains yohimbine, a substance widely used by Africans for its sexual potency. But Hughes said she doubled the product's aphrodissac effects.
Newton King, owner of King Pharmacy, 44 Kentucky St. said that nothing had been proved scientifically to be an aphrodisiac. The doctor did not mean some things wouldn't work.
"I don't know of anything legal that would work," she said.
"Psychology has a lot to do with it," King says. "I have someone that something will work for me."
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