Lustful Appetites
eBook - ePub

Lustful Appetites

An Intimate History of Good Food and Wicked Sex

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  2. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  3. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Lustful Appetites

An Intimate History of Good Food and Wicked Sex

About this book

We take the edible trappings of flirtation for granted: chocolate covered strawberries and romance, oysters on the half shell and desire, the eggplant emoji and a suggestive wink. But why does it feel so natural for us to link food and sexual pleasure? Rachel Hope Cleves explores the long association between indulging in good food and an appetite for naughty sex, from the development of the Parisian restaurant as a place for men to meet with prostitutes and mistresses, to the role of sexual outlaws like bohemians, new women, lesbians and gay men in creating epicurean culture in Britain and the United States. Taking readers on a gastronomic journey from Paris and London to New York, Chicago and San Francisco, Lustful Appetites reveals how this preoccupation changed the ways we eat and the ways we are intimate?while also creating stigmas that persist well into our own twenty-first century.

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Information

Publisher
Polity
Year
2024
Print ISBN
9781509553631
eBook ISBN
9781509553648
Edition
1
Topic
History
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Table of Contents
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright
  5. Dedication
  6. Acknowledgments
  7. Introduction: Good Food, Wicked Sex
  8. 1 The Pleasures of the Table
  9. 2 Innocents Abroad
  10. 3 Perverted Appetites
  11. 4 Private Rooms and Rooms Private
  12. 5 Pretty Waiter Girls
  13. 6 Dinners in Bohemia
  14. 7 Greedy Women
  15. 8 Mistresses of Gastropornography
  16. 9 Gay Gourmets
  17. 10 Foodies
  18. Epilogue: Good Sex, Bad Food
  19. Index
  20. End User License Agreement