Authors | John Davenport |
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Language | English |
Subject | phallic worship, anaphrodisiac, aphrodisiacs |
Publication date | 1869/1873 |
Publication place | United Kingdom |
Aphrodisiacs and Anti-aphrodisiacs: Three Essays on the Powers of Reproduction is a 1869/1873 book by John Davenport in which the author provides an account of sexual rituals and symbols.[1]
John Camden Hotten prepared the book for the press.[2] Dragana Đorđević believes the book to be backdated and argues that it was in fact printed in 1873 because "custom of back-dating a new text was as common in this business as the practice of up-dating an old one." 100 copies were advertised but 250 were actually printed.[3]
Steven Marcus regards it "with a certain amount of sympathy and respect."[3]