Tag: food

“This is Your Pasty”: The Performance of Queer Domesticity in Small-Town Wisconsin

By notcheseditor October 8, 2015 Food and Sexuality, LGBTQ 1 comment

Two queer men elevated the simple pasty to a luxurious, gourmet meal.

CFP: Sex, Food, and History

By notcheseditor June 5, 2015 CFP 0 comments

Guest-editor: Rachel Hope Cleves In the age of food porn, few question the connection between food and sexuality. Advertisements depicting Paris Hilton biting into a Carl’s Junior burger, or Nigella Lawson tonguing an ice cream cone, conflate desirable women and caloric food as like objects to be consumed. But food and […]

Doing It With Food: Cooking and the History of Sexuality

By Gillian Frank April 14, 2015 Food and Sexuality, Post-1945 United States 2 comments

Gillian Frank Romantic dinners for lovers are one of the sweet pleasures of life, and if you don’t initiate one, who will? Remember the thrill of that special dinner before you were married? … A late intimate dinner for two beside a crackling fire, or on the back porch amid […]

What was the Ultimate Medieval Aphrodisiac?

By Katherine Harvey June 5, 2014 Medicine and Sexuality, Medieval 0 comments

Katherine Harvey The idea that food and sex are somehow connected is deeply entrenched in contemporary western culture, and one of its most common manifestations is the idea that certain foods and drinks have aphrodisiac properties. Articles on food and drink with aphrodisiac properties are a common feature in newspapers […]