“A Sri Lankan passenger returning on a flight from Vietnam via Singaporeİ yesterday was nabbed by the Customs for trying to smuggle in four bottlesİ of snake wine. The wine, made from snake blood, is popular in some South East Asian countries as an aphrodisiac. The Customs warned and discharged the passenger but confiscated theİ’wine’ bottles. They said this could be an attempt to introduce the snake wine to theİ Sri Lankan market.” —Daily News (Sri Lanka)

Before reading any further, be sure to go have a look at this picture of snake wine. Good. Thank you. Now that you’re all grossed out, ask yourself: by what strange inversion of thought would anyone ever believe that drinking snake blood — which is apparently steeped in snake corpses — would make them horny? It buggers the imagination, so to speak.

In fact, when you think about it, traditional aphrodisiacs tend to be some of the most God-awful repellent substances — bugs, blood, bones, bits of reptile, occcasionally even the testicles of some unlucky monkey. You wouldn’t consider putting this stuff in your mouth if you were starving to death, and yet apparently the prospect of an enhanced potency makes it palatable. There must be some psychological trick at work here. Perhaps it operates on the same principle as masochism or necrophilia: you willfully undergo pain or disgust in order to achieve some kind of greater pleasure. Maybe it’s the same idea as when an athlete takes a few steps back in order to make a longer leap forward. Pain and disgust are not themselves sexual, but rather the few steps backward that lengthens the leap into sexuality itself.

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