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Maybe your libido runs like greyounds at the track, without nudge or prod. (Maybe you are 19 years old.) Or maybe it feels more like a sleeping dog-- one that you're not content just to let lie. Do you have any new tricks for making old Fido wag his tail and drool? Any favorite pills or potions to nourish your sex pep, hopefully without biting the hand that feeds? After all, you don't want to take something that causes hair to fall out, shrinks the testicles, or makes you smell bad.

Viagra is pretty safe-- but getting hard is only one part getting turned-on. So what works for you? Are there herbs, drugs, foods, inhalants, poultices, or what-have-you that make you sexually out-of-control? Have you tried such traditional tonics as ginseng, ashwagandha, fava beans, yohimbe, Spanish fly, or even (pity the poor creatures) rhinoceros horn? What about, licit or otherwise, testosterone gels or injections? To what effect? Some claim that a man's morning piss-- allegedly bursting with pheromones and testosterone metabolites-- is a veritable elixir, whether smeared on cock & balls or merely drunk!

There's clearly a lot to discuss. For an article on aphrodisiacs, The Guide wants to hear about your experiences. Write The Guide, Att: Aphrodisiacs, PO 990593, Boston, Massachusetts 02199 USA, or fax 617-266-1125, or e-mail theguide@guidemag.com (make the subject header "aphrodisiacs" to get by the spam filters attempting to weed out all those adds for, uh, sex potions).