aphrodisiacal

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The horn is wrongly believed by some consumers in Vietnam and China to have aphrodisiacal and medicinal properties.

From The Guardian • Jan. 21, 2016

There were 3 million walking skeletons in Calcutta; simultaneously, some of the country's 565 maharajahs continued to test the aphrodisiacal powers of crushed diamonds.

From Time Magazine Archive

These things are necessary if Christianity is to assume lordship over a soil on which some aphrodisiacal or Adonis cult has already established a notion as to what a cult ought to be.

From The Antichrist by Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis)