Food and Desire

Pleasure: a feeling of happy satisfaction and enjoyment; enjoyment and entertainment, contrasted with things done out of necessity;
an event or activity from which one derives enjoyment; sensual gratification.

In recent years, the idea of gastronomy has taken off (and along with it a whole new field of study and thought). The ever important satisfaction of gustatory desires are being described on the internet, in blogs, and in casual speech as a new type of sexual satisfaction: Food Porn.

After 24 hours worth of face stuffing from the halls of Slow Food where every angle of the food was described to us in intimate detail, to the museum in Parma, where a beautiful man presented the plates of full and hearty meat. Food porn has turned what was once a sexual term, into a less stigmatized term applying to food. In food porn, it’s about the way food looks, tastes, smells, feels, and most importantly, how it makes you feel. Freud said it is inherent for every being to seek pleasure over pain, and this is no different for food, which in it’s best form, can bring the most delicious and gratification of all.

An introduction to food and pleasure can be found on Wikepedia, which is much more comprehensive than what I have posted here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_porn


Some good resources to experience food porn are first at local restaurants, but also at the following websites:

http://foodporndaily.com/
http://www.slashfood.com/category/food-porn/