Thursday, October 30th 2008

By molly horton

     Sex and food are two great parts of life. Have you ever thought about combining the two?

     “Food is Love,” wrote Bunny Crumpacker in her book The Sex Life of Food. “If cooking is foreplay, eating is making love, and doing the dishes is the morning after.”

     Try it out; if you’re stuck in a sexual rut or just looking to try something new, consider expanding your sexual horizons to include food. From watching your diet to making sure you are healthy and feeling your best, and even shopping for sex toys in the supermarket, there is something for everyone.

     First off, food can serve as the ingredients to optimal sexual enjoyment. Your diet can have a huge impact of your sex life. Beyond your diet making you feel your best and look great it has a direct impact on your libido. While some foods have the power to enhance a sexual experience there are many foods that can impair it. Discovery Health reported, “Excessive sugar, salt, saturated fat and highly processed foods are linked to difficulty reaching orgasm and lack of interest in sex.” A bad diet can lead to a bad sex life.

     Contrarily, some foods claim libido-boosting power. AskMen.com recommends nuts, chocolate, and vegetables and fruits like strawberries, mangoes, and celery. Essentially, foods that boost your energy in healthy ways, using protein and good fats, will give you the energy you need to reach a great orgasm.

     Diet also has an effect on how you taste “down there.” Semen is made up of cholesterol, magnesium, nitrogen, potassium, citric acid, lactic acid and sugars; all of which are influenced by diet. Experts recommend cutting back on alcohol, caffeine and drugs, drinking more water and avoiding junk food. Heavy spices such as garlic and onions can also affect the taste of semen.

     Foods that can be eaten to make semen taste better include peppermint, lemon, parsley and wheatgrass. The same advice applies to women concerned about taste too, watch your diet, and avoid junk food and heavy spices if you need to sweeten up.

     Food can also be introduced into foreplay to spice things up. If you’re just beginning to experiment with adding food into the bedroom David Strovny, a sex education writer, recommended starting off with fruit, whipped cream and syrups. While these seem cliché, they can begin to open up new doors in your sex life. As Strovny wrote, “The sheets might get destroyed, but chances are that you and your partner will end up licking areas of each other you’ve never ventured onto (or into) before.”

     Nina Love Anthony, a columnist from the University of California recommended using cake icing instead of whipped cream. While whipped cream may melt too fast, wrote Anthony, cake icing is great because “it’s thick, it takes some serious tongue action to get each other all clean. Plus, they come in assorted colors and flavors, for whatever mood you might find yourself in.”

     Other ideas to try could be letting a piece of chocolate melt in your mouth and tracing your tongue along your partner’s body or incorporating a Popsicle into oral sex. It is important to note, however, that these items should only be used externally.

     Food as foreplay can range from snacking on strawberries naked to covering your body with chocolate syrup. Whatever you decide, it’s a delicious way to expand your sexual horizons.

     Looking to make food the main course? For those more adventurous partners, incorporating food directly into sexual intercourse is an option. Nina Love Anthony wrote in her article Play with your food, “If you have always been curious about the relationship between produce and the vagina, there are an array of phallic edibles you can try on for size.” Cucumbers, wrote Anthony, are perfect because they are firm, and come in a wide range of sizes. 

     She recommends warming the vegetables in lukewarm water before use, cleaning them and using a condom. Shopping for sex toys in the supermarket is one way to really incorporate food into your sex life.

     A 1992 University of Chicago Study reported that the more sex a person has, the more likely they are to have a happy life and rewarding relationship. The majority of those surveyed, however, only had sex once a week, and 35 per cent reported only a few times a year. 43% of women and 31% of men surveyed reported low sexual desire as a sexual problem. If this is a problem, shake things up a bit in the bedroom! Regardless of how adventurous you are, adding even a little bit of new flavour can have an a big effect.

     Incorporating food and sex could allow you to explore new avenues of pleasure with you partner. Like a good meal, sex should be savoured and enjoyed. Everything from watching your diet to licking cake icing off your partner’s chest can definitely spice things up.

Tags: cooking, energy, whipped cream