Coffee Common sense Coffee can suppress sexual impulses?

In the early 17th century, when Europeans began to experiment with coffee, there was a popular belief in Britain that coffee could suppress sexual impulses, drink too much and even lose sexual ability, and it was a favorite drink for abstinent monks. Under this concept, it is worth noting that the first cafe in London was able to open around 1688. Britons at that time may be more afraid of being manipulated by sexual desire than contemporary fear of losing their sexual ability. Max Weber wrote in Protestant Ethics and the Spirit of Capitalism: "the asceticism of the Puritans (the English Puritans originated from Calvinism) is different from the abstinence life of the monastery only in degree rather than in principle. And because of its concept of marriage, its practical impact is far greater than the latter. Because, even in marriage, sexual intercourse is merely a means of glorifying God in accordance with the instructions of breeding and breeding, and it is for this purpose that God has granted it. " When the body becomes a labor tool in the service of God, how to distribute physical strength becomes a problem of both theology and economics. On this basis, the abstinence function of coffee is reflected. The source of this idea may be the simple dualism of spirit and flesh, in which the body must submit to the spirit, while coffee has a similar superior relationship between spirit and body compared to beer, which has been popular for centuries.

The nutritional value of beer has long been known. In the second half of the 16th century, a male Miller drank an average of 4 quarts of beer a day, according to Cambridge Press's book Food, Energy and Entertainment in British Agriculture. Female workers drink half as much beer as male workers. At that time, beer belonged to the scope of staple food, and people believed that beer was a friend of the body. Coffee can not be used as a staple food, it is very low in calories, and its popularity must be based on the abundance of food, more like a spiritual drink. The most striking sign is that it can help drunken people wake up. With this intuitive effect, coffee has won a place in the beverage world and is associated with values such as "sober" and "calm". Sylvester Defoe, who wrote many books about beverages in the 1970s and 1980s, said in the Tea, Coffee and Chocolate Etiquette that coffee first appeared on the table as a sobriety along with wine and spirits. Its emergence indicates the end of the era of alcoholic beverage rule, and also means that human beings will get a new experience from alcoholic beverages.