13 Super Sexy (and Healthy!) Foods

Add these nutritious foods to your diet to turn up the heat in your relationship.

By The Editors of the Men’s Health and Women’s Health Big Book of Sex

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If food could transform ordinary love lives into epic, sensual, Casanova-caliber escapades you read about in books or see on the big screen, perhaps there would be no more wars, no more loneliness, and we'd be having sex instead of watching the Food Network. While food as aphrodisiac may be speculative, it is clear that some foods are very good for your genitals, encouraging blood flow to the region and triggering feel-good hormones that fan the flames of passion. Try these “Super Sex Foods” from the Men’s Health and Women’s Health Big Book of Sex to improve your health for optimal sex.

The following is excerpted from the Men's Health and Women's Health Big Book of Sex

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