affion

Updated: June 26, 2025

This preparation, called by them Affion, is chiefly composed of opium, and it is asserted that its effect is so violent that a brutal passion supervenes and continues throughout the night, the female being obliged to flee from the too energetic embraces of her lover.

John Davenport - Aphrodisiacs and Anti-aphrodisiacs: Three Essays on the Powers of Reproduction