Welcome to Sexy Food!

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Welcome to my Literature of Food blog

We often hear people when conversing about potential lovers, refer to them in language more closely associated with food: "He looks so good I could eat him!", "She's a tall glass of water" or "he's like dark chocolate". People are so often described as food when it comes to attraction or flirting and this is not something we ever question. Pick up lines contain more food ingredients than many students' dusty cupboards at university. Sexualised food is everywhere! Take the picture above for instance: it screams sex! 

My food blog will be addressing how sex and food have become sides to the same coin and used interchangeably. It will try to discover or explain where the sexual ideology of food may have originated from. I hope to do some fun things over these few months and explore the sex within food. So stay tuned because we will be getting to the bottom of why you cannot walk down the road eating a banana, without having men gawk at you!

Here are some of the questions my blog will be answering:

• What makes food so sexy?
• Why does one's act of eating, specifically women indicate sexual behaviour? 
• Are aphrodisiacs real or mythological? Do they really improve sexual activity or does this have more to do with individual mentality and fantasy?
• How does literature contribute to this sexual representation of food?
• Why are certain fruits sexual? Fruit and vegetables as male or female genitalia.
• What is food porn?

My blog will use various items of literature to explore the sexual innuendo behind food.

I hope you enjoy!