How Food Affects Your Love Life
December 18th, 2011 Posted in Foods and Dishes
Perhaps you remember the scene from the movie Tom Jones, later repeated in Flashdance, where the male and female protagonists eat slowly, sensuously, chomping on a chicken leg (I think it was), slurping and licking their fingers, looking provocatively at each other — without them touching each other or removing a single piece of clothing, that scene was truly one of the most erotic moments in movie history,
Of course food has something to do with sex. How about the double meanings of some common words in our language? Notice “cheesecake”, “melons,” “nuts,” “a dish,” “honey,” “honey bunch,” “my sweet,” “Sweetie-pie,” and variations. And of course the ultimate expression of delight, “I could eat you up!”
All cultures have foods that are considered aphrodisiac. For example, saffron in Spain, bird’s nest soup in China, camel’s hump among the Arabs, cocoa for the Aztecs. It was said, for example, that Montezuma had 600 concubines, and to satisfy them he drank 50 cups of cocoa per day from a golden goblet. Over time, almost every interesting or exotic foodstuff, particularly if reminiscent of the male or female sex organs, has been used to inspire desire and stimulate performance: bananas, peaches, berries, figs, dates, asparagus, nuts, seeds, stuffed dates, sea urchins, to name a few.
By Annemarie Colbin, Ph.D.
Source: http://www.foodandhealing.com/articles/article-foodlove.htm
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