Your analysis has a ring of plausibility to me...it sounds right.
I loved Cosby as a kid...I had his records and such.
But something, somewhere changed, maybe it was me growing up, but I don’t think so.
I’m old enough to remember hearing this line of comedy from Cosby: “Spanish Fly.”
“Bill Cosby jokes about drugging women unearthed”
After two women have recently come forward claiming to have been drugged and raped by the comedian, a joke from Cosby’s 1969 album It’s True! It’s True! has been making the rounds. In the stand-up recording, he recounts a story of being a 13-year-old boy and learning that (allegedly) when you slip “Spanish fly” into a woman’s drink, it will make her more susceptible to a man’s advances.
“From then on, anytime you see a girl, ‘Wish I had some Spanish fly,’” Cosby is heard saying in his 1969 act. “Go to a party, see five girls standing alone. Boy, if I had a whole jug of Spanish fly I’d light that corner up over there. Haaa ha ha.”