“But, as sages have long said, the sexiest part of the body and the best aphrodisiac in the world is the imagination.”

—  Diane Ackerman, book A Natural History of the Senses

Source: A Natural History of the Senses (1990), Chapter 3 “Taste” (p. 131)

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