A Partial List of Known Aphrodisiacs & Anti-Aphrodisiacs

by Anna Cherry

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Anti-aphrodisiacs:

  • Baby books
  • Home
  • Winters, unshaven
  • Fifty Shades of Grey
  • Gluttony
  • The term “godly woman”
  • Co-ed office bathrooms
  • Office bathrooms
  • Content marketing
  • B2B marketing webinars
  • Obliterative edits
  • Full-time job, no benefits
  • The gate, closing
  • No gym
  • No benefits
  • Sex dream about my brother
  • The Weeknd in practice
  • The Wolf of Wall Street, all 180 minutes
  • Southern Baptist youth ministers
  • This blog.
  • Pre-war apartment cockroaches, clutter, and grime
  • Dates
  • The gate, closing
  • Paris sex museum
  • Old Xanga posts (probably)
  • Infant niece
  • Dude high on hash at our Halloween party who stroked my leg and said it was like a nice “jamón
  • HTML
  • Dick pics
  • Death

Aphrodisiacs:

  • Direct deposits
  • Procrastination
  • Marijuana
  • Alcohol
  • Caffeine
  • Olives with pits
  • Flamenco
  • YouTube
  • FKA twigs
  • Hostel bars
  • Kissing a stranger to Bon Iver
  • Being a stranger
  • Harry Fear (never met)
  • Grand Canyon (never been)
  • Camping (been once)
  • Basketball players
  • Lifting weights
  • Washington Heights bachata, blasted
  • Blue is the Warmest Color trailers
  • The Weeknd in theory
  • Candles, lit casually
  • Fresh produce
  • Red Hot Chili Peppers
  • College
  • Leisure
  • Rage on the sidewalk near my office
  • Revelation after Paris sex museum
  • Dirty Dancing, and the practice
  • Ugly
  • Sharp
  • “You can get it in the supermarket, but the good stuff is from the charcuterie. If I show you this real saucisson from a charcuterie, you will have an orgasm.”
  • Perfume
  • Cookies
  • Death

Anna Cherry is from Arkansas and writes in New York City. She is thankful for her job. (Really.) Tweet kindly to her at @unacereza.