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A group of geese is called a gaggle, a group of crows is called a murder, and a group of sex chocolates is called, by the erotic-chocolate company , an “orgy.”In a TikTok video viewed 13.7 million times, a woman named Emma Patterson tries Sextz, a product billed as “herbal-infused .” These are individually wrapped chocolates containing ingredients that have been said to increase arousal, among them ginkgo biloba, Siberian ginseng, passion flower, caffeine, and something called horny goat weed.This content can also be viewed on the site it from.Sold at online sex store and , they offer an appealing promise: Eat chocolate, have better sex. Or maybe, more subtly, have better sex without taking drastic measures like communication or doing hip flexor stretches.Packaged supplements that promise horniness: not a new invention. But Patterson’s video makes them seem more like a clever sex hack and less like the longtime inventory of gas station checkout counters. In the TikTok video Patterson’s camera pans to the man lying next to her on a bed. They clink chocolates like shot glasses. The man inserts the chocolate into his mouth and smiles with dilapidated pleasure, content to be seen and not heard. (Refreshing!) The scene cuts to black, and Patterson’s voice growls a long, drawn-out “wow.”Since Patterson's TikTok, sales of sex chocolates from are up 1,010% year over year, the company tells Glamour. Her video struck a chord that scientists have been trying to get us to hear for a while. As social distancing restrictions lift, many anticipated , optimistically calling it the Whoring Twenties. But as the pandemic has continued, thanks to the delta variant and vaccine refusal, people are not necessarily having more partners, but rather wilder, freer sex with partners they already have. In a representative of 2,000 American adults by the Kinsey Institute in 2021, 46% of respondents said that they have been sexually experimenting more. Research from Hinge revealed similar findings: Almost half of 3,000 survey respondents this summer reported that they want to “explore new sexual desires with a partner,” and nearly a third said they minted a over the past year.This is all to say that sometimes in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one to try TikTok sex chocolates. My journey began with an exhaustive, nationwide search for a partner who would be willing to have sex with me in exchange for two or three herb-filled chocolates from the internet. (I’m kidding—I’m dating someone! He has not yet asked me for payment in chocolate.)My main goal was not to have good sex, but rather to avoid the fate of New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd. In 2014 Dowd published a in the Times about the time she went to Colorado to sample for the first time, and apparently didn’t solicit advice on the appropriate dose of edibles. She reported that she ate so many servings of a weed chocolate bar that she hallucinated for eight hours. Ultimately, she wrote, “I became convinced that I had died and no one was telling me.”I did not want to be “that guy,” the person who overdoses on sex chocolates and ends up in some kind of apocalyptic horniness fugue state. To that end, I drank about five teaspoons of white wine and ate two sex chocolates. The man I am dating, whom I will call Passion Flower here for purposes of anonymity, did the same. Passion Flower and I ate amaretto and birthday cake flavor Sextz. They weren’t bad—similar to a milk buttercream from See’s Candy, but with a mild vending-machine-style staleness.What happened next is not, I think, what the makers of Sextz intended. The rest of the evening was spent like this: One of us would stop and say to the other, “Are you feeling anything from the chocolates?” And the other would say, “Not really.” And then we would both freeze in horror and quickly say something like, “No, no—I mean—I’m glad this is happening! I don’t think the chocolates are…but this is still soooo nice.” Shakespeare could not have written such crisp dialogue! If you haven’t paused sex to say, “Just checking—are you mad at me?” try it! Spice things up! The chocolates inspired huge amounts of the kind of mildly fraught communication you get when one person is trying to parallel-park and the other person is standing outside the car, shouting advice.The night after experiencing The Sex Chocolates, I went to a dinner party attended by six other women, and handed out the remaining chocolates. I asked the guests to try them, if they liked, and report back. Sex chocolates are a great conversation starter—it was like I had gifted every woman a Sea Monkey kit or a crisp $2 bill. But weeks passed, and no women reported back. I fretted. Were they on chocolate-fueled sex benders? Had I overestimated my friend’s friends’ interests in having their sexual exploits recorded in detail on a popular website?After 28 days—the length of two cacao harvesting seasons!—I issued a sensitive reminder to the group text (“DID ANYONE TRY THEIR SEX CHOCOLATES?”). One response came back. “The sex was great but tbh we both forgot we had taken them until afterward,” wrote a woman, who I will refer to as Ginkgo Biloba. To her this was ideal. “We decided we were going to have a night of hedonistic activities,” she said. She and her partner threw back the chocolates, and then went straight to a cheese store, she said, which they followed up with wine. The chocolates had an effect, even if it wasn't chemical. They set a vibe of outrageous consumption.Most PopularDid ingredients in the chocolates add oxygen to the furnace of desire? Unclear. Was it kind of fun to eat something called “sex chocolates”? Yes, yes, it was. When I was growing up in the bleak years of sexist magazine sex writing in the 2000s, sex tips were tricky and skill-based: Open your mouth wider! Move it faster! Treat your man’s body parts like a wind instrument!Sex chocolates provide a pleasant respite from all that work. Open your mouth wider, they coax (to eat the chocolate). Move it faster, they whisper (because the chocolate has caffeine in it). Treat the chocolate like a wind instrument (because you are a fun, zany gal!). Sex chocolates do not have the instant arousal factor of, say, having sex on the sun-warmed bow of a yacht at golden hour, or even of sex while slightly drunk.&nbsp;But they do work as a gateway drug to talking, cheese eating, and general . At the end of the day, sex chocolates are made out of chocolate. Having them around makes you think about sex, talk about sex, and plan to have sex. It’s not an orgy. But why bite off more than you can chew?Jenny Singer is a staff writer for Glamour. You can on Twitter.Today’s biggest stories, from pop culture to politics—delivered straight to your inbox.

A group of geese is called a gaggle, a group of crows is called a murder, and a group of sex chocolates is called, by the erotic-chocolate company , an “orgy.”In a TikTok video viewed 13.7 million times, a woman named Emma Patterson tries Sextz, a product billed as “herbal-infused .” These are individually wrapped chocolates containing ingredients that have been said to increase arousal, among them ginkgo biloba, Siberian ginseng, passion flower, caffeine, and something called horny goat weed.This content can also be viewed on the site it from.Sold at online sex store and , they offer an...

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