Sex, Food, Chocolate and the Church
Sex, Food, Chocolate and the Church Sex, Food, Chocolate and the Church In the 1600’s, chocolate was thought to be a powerful aphrodisiac, inflaming lustful passion. So much so that religious leaders banned monks and nuns from ingesting it. In 1997, three French senators campaigned to have chocolate reclassified as ‘vital foodstuff.’ Chocolate, they claimed, with its high content of magnesium and various vitamins, as well as its stimulatory and anti-depressant properties, qualified for a reclassification, which would lower its tax rate from 20.5 percent and 5.5 percent. Further, if chocolate were to be added to medicines, those drugs could qualify for the super duper reduced tax rate of 2.1 percent (applied to prescriptions) and these medicines could qualify for reimbursement by social security. It’s the PEA (phenylethylamine) that gets the ‘sex’ pumping! PEA creates feelings of euphoria, creating a yum-delish rush, as it causes the release of dopamine (t...
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