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My husband and I have been on a search for oysters for about a week. I was arranging to buy a bushel from the eel fisherman up the road, but he couldn’t get them ‘til next week. We found out that they carry them at the Farm Fresh about 20 minutes away and we picked up 2 dozen this evening.

We eat them raw, sometimes I like to steam them open on the grill, but it was all freshly shucked tonight. We sit on the front porch and he opens one for me, then one for him. I squeeze a little fresh lemon on mine, and he takes Texas Pete on his. During our evening of oyster eating I started to wonder if there was any truth behind the tale of oysters being an aphrodisiac.

I asked my husband what he thought, he assumed that perhaps in some certain- perhaps twisted way, an oyster could be perceived as resembling a certain part of the female anatomy. Personally insulted, I’ll have to dismiss that theory.

It’s likely that many seafood’s including oysters gain their reputation because of the Greek Goddess of love and beauty Aphrodite. The myth goes that the Goddess was born out of the sea. We’ve all seen the beautiful painting by Sandro Botticelli “The Birth of Venus.” Beyond that fact, I did some web surfing on the subject myself. According to medicinenet.com oysters are full of zinc, which aids the male prostate gland. However, the prostate gland is not directly linked to arousal.

According to an article in “The Sydney Morning Herald” (smh.com.au), rare amino acids were found in oysters and some other shell fish, which trigger increased levels of sexual hormones. There you have it folks, finally proof after all these centuries!!

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