Six Absurd "Sexy" Edibles
Posted at 12:19 PM Jun 12, 2008
In a post on the Blowfish blog last week, Greta Christina vents her frustration at the idea that mixing food and sex is a high form of kink:
...I could talk about the idea that combining sex with food — what Dan Savage calls “faux naughty, boring breeder kink” and Susie Bright calls (I’m paraphrasing here) “a vain attempt to get your lover to go down on you” — is wild and kinky and adventurous. Not that there’s anything wrong with combining sex with food, and not that sex is a competition . . . but if that’s your idea of cutting-edge modern sexual adventure, you need to go someplace where they’re doing flesh-hook suspensions and anal fisting.
To underscore her point, I just had to go around and collect some of the internet's finest (also known as grossest) sexy edibles. If you're a lady or love a lady, you should know that adding high fructose to the mix of vaginal juices is a surefire way of getting a yeast infection for most women. My advice is: laugh but don't touch.
Though I don't want to knock anything that people find fun or sexy, I find it depressing that people want to mask the taste of their own or their lovers' body. Sweat and come are part of what make sex fun, in my humble opinion.
--Audacia Ray
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Most of these found me shuddering. I've experimented with the Kama Sutra range in the past though - mostly I enjoyed having slutty words written on my in chocolate! Gets way too sweet way too fast for serious licking, though.
xx Dee
Posted by: Curvaceous Dee at June 12, 2008 5:53 PM
As a consumer, I have to agree with you that most of these are silly, with the exception of the Kama Sutra Chocolate with the brush. You get to write all over your partner and draw all over their nipples. And when you're done, you get to nibble it off. Also, the little viking hat seems funny too. But generally, I don't get into mixing food with sex.
Now as a store owner, because my wife and I thought most of these were silly, we didn't bring them in initially. Finally, after request after request, we relented. They have been surprisingly good sellers even though we warn everyone that they need to be extra careful because of the yeast infection issues.
That silly candy bra up there is a consistently good seller much to my surprise. I personally just don't see the attraction.
Posted by: Matt at June 13, 2008 9:56 AM
Matt, definitely an interesting point you bring up. Many of the couples and women-oriented more upscale retailers I know did the same thing you did - initially steer clear of product that seems trashy or senseless, but then eventually start selling it and moving product quite well.
As a consumer and sex educator, I bash the hell out of these products (save for the Kama Sutra stuff, which is pretty nice if you're into that kinda thing), but if I were a retailer, I'd probably stock them.
Posted by: Audacia Ray at June 13, 2008 2:08 PM
