She Tells Seashells

What with the northeastern coast having a nightmare of a red tide outbreak, it hasn't been a good few weeks for shellfish. So when I got an "over the transom" email from Frasheski Photography, inviting me to link to their oyster photographs, I just had to take them up on the offer. The oyster needs the good PR! Check out the photos for yourself and you'll understand why this is this week's pussy blog. Very sensual, those bivalves. And, in case you were looking for a birthday present, the folks at Frasheski Photography are also willing to print oyster photos on "anything: tee shirts, posters, calendars, postcards, placemats for a restaurant, customized aprons for your oyster bar, anything imaginable."

And when the Wellfleet oysters are safe to eat once again, please partake. Are they aphrodisiacs? Some say yes. Some say no. There's this take from Life of Reiley:

"Like many foods of the sea, the oyster's slightly salty/sweet scent, a smell not dissimilar to the most potent female pheromone, TMA, has proven to be mildly stirring. Although the serving of nutrients in a single oyster is negligible, oysters are loaded with zinc, a key nutrient for testosterone production, (important for stimulating libido in both men and women)."

My vote is for the horseradish in the cocktail sauce. Mmm, spicy.

Comments:

• Hee… you know, the idea that oysters smell like a woman’s naughty bits & that’s why they’re an aphrodisiac is (a) novel to me and (b) very sensible! It’s just one step from eating an oyster to eating me, then, right? Maybe this ought to be a trick broadcast to women everywhere: oyster farms would have more business than they could handle, and there would be lots of glorious oral sex for all.

  Posted by Izabel  on  06/14/05  at  05:15 PM
  
  

• eow! why do people eat something with the texture of an eyeball and the appearance of a glob of hash-inspired phlegm dregdged up from the depths of a pair of tarpit lungs?

  Anyone who says Oysters are aphrodisiacs must be desperately spectacularly unremittingly bad in bed.

  Posted by lighterate  on  06/19/05  at  10:37 AM
  
  

• Oh, lighterate. You need to go live in New Orleans for a year. You probably have a strong opinion about eating crawfish, too. I have no idea whether oysters are aphrodisiacs, but… they’re good to eat. Really.

  Posted by Prospero  on  06/19/05  at  12:43 PM
  
  

• I believe there is little doubt that oysters are an aphrodisiac.

  God help the man (or woman) who goes to a raw bar with ME, anyway.

  Posted by ashbloem  on  06/22/05  at  08:45 AM
  
  

• Just amazing! I’ve eaten oysters but I never really looked at them closely, I guess.

  Careful with those photos though as you may have some nuts who will soon start a movement to ban oyster consumption for those under 18!

  Great site. Liked the photos, a real eye-opener.

  Posted by Skarr  on  06/27/05  at  10:56 PM
  
  

• Oysters, yummy!

  Fun to dive for, fun to eat raw on the halfshell, fun to BBQ!

  What’s not to like

  -TC

  Posted by Tony Comstock  on  06/28/05  at  09:17 PM
  
  

• it’s times like these that I’m glad I’m allergic to seafood. don’t think I could stand to ingest it anyhow. bleh…

  Posted by JeN  on  06/30/05  at  09:22 PM
  
  

• Don’t knock these until you’ve tried really high-quality fresh ones - they are easily one of tastiest delicacies around.

  Posted by Napoleon  on  07/18/05  at  03:34 PM
  
  
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