Green, not red or pink used to be a symbol of love and sexuality.

These days, the color we associate with passion and desire is red. However, this was not the case during the medieval times when green was the color associated with love and sexuality, and the base, natural desires of the human.

At the time, green represented the color of the serpent who led to the fall of man in the Garden of Eden. And for the troubadours (composers and performers of some form of poetry during the high Middle Ages), green was the color of love, with light-green clothing was reserved for unmarried young women.
Ever heard the saying that the blacker the berry the sweeter the juice? Dark-skinned women in Persian and Sudanese poetry used to be referred to as ‘green’ women, and were deemed as very erotic. In ancient China, whores used to go by the name ‘the family of the green lantern’, and the family of one would wear a green headscarf. How things change…