the words "enema" and "cookbook" don't belong together
#foodandsex #cookbooks #foodhistory

Romance-novelist Barbara Cartland's 1975 advice on how sexually-frustrated wives can spike their husbands' meal with vitamins to make them more virile. #foodandsex

Going straight into my epilogue! Naked vegan dinner parties in the Lower East Side #foodandsex #foodhistory #nudism https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/28/style/fude-dinner-experience-nude.html

Flavo-cept contraceptive cream in raspberry flavor.

You read those words here first, and if you're lucky, you'll never read them again.

#histsex #foodhistory #foodandsex

I just wrote a paragraph explaining my answer to a historical question that I've been chewing over for a decade and that is central to my #foodandsex book. It feels good after all these years to feel like I have a non-stupid answer. #foodhistory #histsex #histodons

A bawdy little #foodandsex ditty from the 18th c:

Last night a dream came into my head
Thou wert a fine white loaf of bread
Then, if May butter I could be,
How I would spread, oh! how I would spread myself on thee!
This morning too my thoughts ran hard
That thou wert made a cool tankard
Then, could I but a lemon be,
How I would squeeze, oh! how would I squeeze my juice in thee!

#foodhistory #histsex

@justindmrogers @litstudies I've been writing about bohemianism in my #foodandsex history manuscript, hence reading all the bohemian books. Will add the Kipling to my list.

David Lance Goines's 1977 poster for the annual garlic festival at Chez Panisse restaurant in Berkeley, California. Not the peak of sexy garlic imagery! That came 3 years later in Les Blank's 1980 documentary "Garlic is as Good as Ten Mothers" which featured a waitress at the garlic-themed La Veille Maison, in Truckee, receiving an aioli massage from sausage-maker Bruce Aidells, a scene described in wonderful detail by Ruth Reichl in Comfort Me With Apples. #foodandsex #foodhistory #foodart

Unintentional #foodandsex content: local market flyer misspelled Hornby Island. #vancouverIsland #yyj

From today's #foodandsex research: Paul Cadmus's "Greenwich Village Cafeteria" from 1934. Check out the guy disappearing into the bathroom with the come hither glance over his shoulder. And the guy trying to pick another guy up behind the woman in orange. Curious how the blonde woman's purse end up spilled on the floor. I notice there's no food being served. #histsex #arthistory #PaulCadmus