Letter: Hot peppers
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Your support makes all the difference.Sir: Apropos the letter in today's newspaper from Dr Henrietta Lawrie and others about an aphrodisiac 'medication' for women, long ago in Sweden, where dancing is vigorous, the men put pepper on the wooden dance floor. It would rise in a cloud to stimulate those parts that other means could not reach.
Yours cheerfully,
DAVID BURNETT
Milborne Port, Somerset
11 October
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