Not together; get your mind out of the gutter. I was thinking of a clever article for my Tuesday writing for Insidestl.com when I was thinking of food porn. Made me wonder how it came to be and why it is that way. The term was most likely originally coined in 1984, when Rosalind Coward suggests that the way that we enjoy cooking and eating food can often be compared to something else that we enjoy. (hint, hint)
Other places have suggested that the use of food in advertisements, to make them appear as a metaphor for parts of the female body, seem to suggest that food can be sensual or erotic. And still others have suggested that food porn is directly related to attractive hosts or hostesses on cooking shows such as Nigella Lawson.
I remember watching the movie Down With Love, in which the lead female character suggests that women no longer have a need for men, because eating chocolate can cause the brain to emit the same feelings as those released during sex. It was a big deal in the movie because it suggested that women may not need a man at all. Well, truth is that chocolate does have a chemical in it, trypotphan, which your brain uses to make serotonin, which is the same chemical that is released in your body during sex. Therefore: chocolate makes you feel good. So, perhaps chocolate is the ultimate in food porn?
Now, I think that for men, in general, the image of bacon cooking is or a large slab of bacon seems to be our version of food porn. While, I'm not into sploshing or other food fetishes, I will say also that seeing a perfectly cooked slab of bacon ready for my enjoyment does make me happy. BUT, it is not a substitute for sex.
Other places have suggested that the use of food in advertisements, to make them appear as a metaphor for parts of the female body, seem to suggest that food can be sensual or erotic. And still others have suggested that food porn is directly related to attractive hosts or hostesses on cooking shows such as Nigella Lawson.
I remember watching the movie Down With Love, in which the lead female character suggests that women no longer have a need for men, because eating chocolate can cause the brain to emit the same feelings as those released during sex. It was a big deal in the movie because it suggested that women may not need a man at all. Well, truth is that chocolate does have a chemical in it, trypotphan, which your brain uses to make serotonin, which is the same chemical that is released in your body during sex. Therefore: chocolate makes you feel good. So, perhaps chocolate is the ultimate in food porn?
Now, I think that for men, in general, the image of bacon cooking is or a large slab of bacon seems to be our version of food porn. While, I'm not into sploshing or other food fetishes, I will say also that seeing a perfectly cooked slab of bacon ready for my enjoyment does make me happy. BUT, it is not a substitute for sex.
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