A Cliche...but it works...

In the Esquire's Sex Q&A section a reader poses this question:

We hear a lot about culinary aphrodisiacs, but what about musical ones? Does Al Green really deliver? Has anyone studied this?

An interesting question. Since i find music and romance often inseparable. And i will sadly admit that Al Green always does the trick. Sure it's a tried and cliched method of making someone feel both sexy and romantic - but heck i'll stick with what works. Of course Rev. Green is not the only music that is meaningful - there are plenty of other music that make me, um, happy. Music is a powerful tool and must be exercised with great caution. For example, as much as i love Weezer's Island in the Sun, it will always remind me of myself nineteen and broken hearted, but in a kind of weird happy way.

Here's the official answer from Stacey Grenrock Woods:

Al Green? When did everyone stop doing it to "Kashmir"? Somebody really should study these things, but all anyone ever studies are wild salmon and antioxidants, which is pointless since these things won't improve your sex life unless you snort them at exactly the right moment.
The prevailing hypothesis for the music/sex thing is that it's a combination of cultural conditioning and the inherent effect that certain tones have on the brain. Here's how Dr. Mark Jude Tramo, director of the Institute for Music & Brain Science at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital, explains a preference for one recording artist over another: "It's because the first time she had sex or started thinking about boys was after an Al Green concert. Or she caught her sister in the kitchen with her boyfriend making out while listening to Al Green," in which case I'd say she's sort of an odd girl with too many Al Green's based coincidences to consider getting serious about.
As for the brain-science part, says Dr. Tramo, "Some songs are just sexy because of the way the rhythms are. If I bang a piano with my fist and hit all the notes together, nobody likes that." Except Germans, so there goes that theory.
But seriously, bro, Physical Graffiti, , disc one, last song.

I wonder what kind of rhythm is the most appealing. If guys like faster songs and girls enjoy the slower variety? Anyway besides smell, music is right up there with my quickest memory trigger.