Aphrodisiac: Prices Increase on the Chinese Seal Penis Market

High North News 10.11.1997

After last year's fall in the price of seal penises, prices now appear to be on the up and up. At a recent fisheries exposition in Beijing, a Norwegian company sold its entire 1997 stock of 6,000 seal penises at prices of 40 USD for the long ones (45 cm) and 15-20 USD for the small ones (20 cm), reports the Norwegian newspaper "Bergens Tidende" in today's issue.

The buyer, a business man from Singapore, also secured an option on all the seal penises the company can manage to supply next year. The penises will be used in the manufacture of a remedy designed to stimulate sexual potency. "I am confident that this product will be a sales success all over Asia. In China, there are a thousand years of wisdom and traditions in the use of seal organs as an expedient of sexual potency. In earlier times, only the Emperor was allowed to drink this panacea of potency, a mixture concocted from the penises of reindeers, bulls and seals, together with Chinese herbs and spirits. And indeed, the Emperor would have needed all the help he could get in bed, to fulfil the obligations he had towards his innumerable wives and concubines," says the buyer with a smile. Last year's price for an adult seal penis was 10 USD, down from 35 USD in 1995 (HNWNews 3 May 1996). To see what IFAW has to say about this particular trade, have a look at this document:

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