Apple Sweat For Sale

[undergroundsea]

"In Elizabethan times lovers were so enamoured of each other's body odours that it was common for a woman to keep a peeled apple in her armpit until it had absorbed her sweat and smell. She would give this 'love apple' to her lover to sniff at in her absence."

Comments

[thisaboveall]

ummm thats so hilarious, i want to try it

[undergroundsea]

I dare thee!

[el_moofo]

hehe my english teacher told me bout that.
Perhaps that was what led to giving my highschool crush apple seed necklaces.

[hnpcc]

How uncomfortable would that be? Maybe I'm just thinking of too large an apple.

[undergroundsea]

yeah I was thinking maybe halves or segments? Imagine though all the browning.

[sylvia_rachel]

Eeeeeeewwwwwww.

And I thought the Victorian hair jewellery was icky.

[undergroundsea]

I quite like the idea of elephant hair bracelets, but weaving your own hair into cushions and brooches is definitely yuck.

[song_of_copper]

Haha, part of me wants to say "Eww, gross, no way!" and part of me thinks.... well, there are worse places to stick an apple. >_< I do remember reading sex tips in magazines involving armpit-sniffing (apparently there are useful pheromones) but always thought it sounded too ridiculous to be very arousing, especially in our prudish age of 24-hour deodorants! ;-P

[undergroundsea]

Yes! I am sure there were some women who stuck it somewhere else but they were no Guinevere! I remember hearing a "study" about how women with hairy armpits went into a bar and had men make a bee line for them. But sadly for them once the men found out they had hairy pits, social conditioning put them off!