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Originally Posted by willravel
You're clever.  Yes, wine is a social aphrodisiac. Of course the alcohol can mute inhibitions, but the reality is that sexuality's assiciation with wine deals with the social viewing of wine; romantic, seductive, sophisticated. Wine is a quintessential romantic tool.
Beer is the same thing, except it represents something a bit different. It does share the loss of inhabition, but it represents the "party" side of most people. This is the side that wears the lampshade on the head and spews profanities at parked police cars. Beer is a relatively inexpensive way to get drunk. |
This first part has nothing to do with the aphrodesiac side of things, but beer, wine, and hard liquor are all pretty nearly equal as far as price goes; in fact, I did a little mental calculation a while ago and I believe beer came out as the more expensive one, although just marginally (likely due to bottling costs).
As people said earlier in the thread, wine does what it does because people expect it to do what they allow it to do to them. Yes, I purposefully worded that sentence in that manner.