Eat your way to more and better sex
Here’s a diet worth sticking to
Go nuts!
Go bananas!
Hot is hot!
Aaaaavocado good!
Seeds of good things to come
So eat up!
Zoomer magazine recently highlighted this important food group as food that will “feed your sex drive.” Of course, Zoomer is aimed at “50-60 somethings” trying to be “30-40 somethings,” but regardless of age, who doesn’t want to feed their sex drive? Besides, it’s hardly a diet because these five little extras can easily be part of your regular fare – in soups, salads, stir-fries, snacks, cereals.
Here’s what Zoomer says:
- Walnuts are packed with omega-3 fatty acids which keep sex-hormone production at its peak. Or you can substitute pumpkin seeds and flax seeds.
- Bananas are filled with potassium, a key ingredient to muscle strength, giving your orgasm extra intensity.
- Peppers have a chemical called capsaicin which increases circulation to get blood pumping and stimulates nerve endings so you’ll feel more turned on.
- Avocado and asparagus have a vitamin that helps produce hormones like testosterone and estrogen and progesterone which circulate in your bloodstream and stimulate sexual responses.
- Pomegranates can thank antioxidants for their passion power. Antioxidants protect the lining of blood vessels allowing more blood to course through them. The benefit is increased genital sensitivity.
So no matter what age you are (it’s not always a state of mind), cut back on the wine intake and up your consumption of these essential foods. And if you’re among the 50 million men with erectile dysfunction (see earlier blog), who knows, maybe you can cut back on the Viagra.
“People are the worst”
Coming 2027
My personal history is the stuff they write books about. And that's what I am doing. The working title, "Chains of My Father: Marry White."
"The ghostly image of the tragic mulatto trapped between two worlds." - Barack Obama
This perspicacious line from the Prologue of Barack Obama's "Dream from My Father" wrenched my aspiration into action. I started writing, furiously. Unlike Obama's perspective, my pain had been for the opposite reason: I was not seen by whites as a "tragic mulatto," rather I lived every day of my childhood hoping whites were not "searching my eyes for some telltale sign" that I WAS mulatto. This is my story.
It's historical fiction because I cannot find enough records to substantiate all facets of the story. I've combed the genealogy, traveled to my father and grandparents' birthplace, walked the graveyards, searched the churches and ... well, all the facts aren't there. I've written three books based on the genealogy of other families but my ancestors emerged from a journey of too much slavery and too few records.
In Grenada, West Indies, my paternal, 3x great grandmother was a "freed slave" and my grandmother, Amelia, was born to a mixed race slave named Mary (we do not know her last name) and a white, French plantation owner, Fredric de Poullain. Amelia was raised in the "Big House" and in adulthood attempted to escape her black heritage by disowning her mother, telling her, "Get out and never come back." Amelia, the mother of twelve children, enshrined the family in her ancestors' commandment, "Marry white." Many did, including my father marrying mother a lovely, white, Anglo-Saxon protestant born in England. They met in Canada where my dad studied and became a doctor.
It has taken seven generations to be free of the stigma of black heritage but today my children embrace it. Unfortunately, the past 250 years have been a wasteland of bigotry and racism, but, on closer look, we see not only the brutality, fear and violence but the self-respect, dignity, love, perseverance and indomitable spirit.
The depth of historic perspective and the human inspiration has created a trilogy and as of this writing I have only arrived at the beginning of the 20th century. 1900 is the year my father was born and the beginning of Book III, and he's pushing me to make sure our story is published by the summer of 2027.
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