Psychologists from East China Normal University have found that ginger increases sexual arousal. The results of the research have been published magazine Journal of Gender Studies.
According to behavioral immune system theory, avoidance is the body’s defense mechanism that makes a person aware of and avoids infection, harmful substances, or disease-causing parasites. The same mechanism affects a person’s sex life (people may feel aversion to bodily secretions during sex), which causes arousal problems.
According to scientists, ginger can help with this problem. The study included 250 people divided into two groups. Members of the former were given a placebo, while the latter were given ginger. All participants then had to rate the level of aversion they experienced to various bodily secretions. They also answered questions about erotic stimuli (nude and half-naked photos of models of the opposite sex).
“As expected, bodily secretions caused disgust, which in turn reduced sexual arousal. However, in the ginger group, aversion did not affect sexual desire that much. In fact, ginger increased arousal,” the scientists concluded.