Do you have a food fetish? Associating food with sensuality or eroticism is incredibly common. Most of us have engaged with food and sex in some way.
When someone is aroused by erotic situations that involve food, that’s called sitophilia. It’s not a term used very often. We usually just say “food fetish.”
Seinfeld fans may remember the hilarious episode where George starts getting turned on by food. His girlfriend burns some vanilla incense, and he gets a sudden erotic interest in pudding. He decides the ultimate accompaniment to sex is the pastrami sandwich.
His girlfriend is willing to consider classics like whipped cream and strawberries, but draws the line at mustard-drenched meat. Then George meets a woman who sees eye to eye with him on smoked meats.
Laughter is always welcome, but reading in between the lines can tell us a lot about a kink. George is describing a classic case of erotic conditioning or imprinting—he begins associating food with sex, and soon just sitting in the deli becomes a turn on!
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It’s no surprise that many of us find food erotic. We use food words to describe sex—words like hunger and consume. Food can be sensual and poetic, a variety of flavors and textures. We often describe certain foods, such as chocolate, as “better than sex.” Even ancient religious books describe erotic love in terms of wine and fruits like pomegranates. And being well nourished leads to hearty, healthy sex.
13 Food Kinks and Fetishes
Here are a variety of food fetishes and kinks that people enjoy.
1. Sploshing
Sploshing is a food fetish that is sometimes known as the wet and messy fetish. The WAM kink can also involve non-food items like shaving cream or paint.
Sploshing is all about making a mess with food. People with this food fetish get sexual excitement from watching someone cover themselves with or play in copious quantities of food. Some are turned on by the tactile sensation and smells of the food against their own body as well.
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2. Mukbang
Mukbang is a Korean phenomenon that means “eating broadcast.” A social media host talks about food or cooking, all the while eating huge amounts of food while the audience watches. Some people get extreme sexual pleasure from this spectacle!
In America and elsewhere, there have been contests based on eating vast quantities of a certain food, such as chili con carne, sausages, burgers, and just about anything you can imagine. These contests were not sexual in nature, but some people find themselves incredibly aroused by watching.
3. Belly Stuffing
There are people with a food fetish who love the feeling of having a stuffed belly and the sensations of being very full. Some fetishists enjoy watching someone else having a stuffed belly. They experience the filling up with food, the growing belly, the lethargy, the grunts. and the belt loosening in an erotic way.
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4. Burp Fetish
While many of us stifle our burps out of politeness, others get a jolt of sexual excitement from people burping. It can be the sound of the burp, the smell, or the social taboo.
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5. Feederism
A food fetish with a worldwide community is the feederism fetish. This kink involves someone sexually aroused by feeding someone vast amounts of food, or watching them devour it, and the resulting weight gain that goes with it.
Feederism is a food fetish that is linked to fat fetishes as well as BDSM in some cases, as for some the weight gain is so extreme that the person doing the eating requires help for the tasks of daily living, and are in a kind of bondage.
Read: Feederism: Feeding and Gaining Fetish Explained
6. Cake Sitting
Watching a naked woman pressing her vagina and butt cheeks into a beautiful cake is a thing. (There are occasional guy-on-guy reports or other gender cake-sitting variations, but it is mostly a woman with cake for guys with food fetish.)
This food fetish is a specific WAM kink or a particular kind of sploshing. It can be very performative for her if she has a cake sitting enthusiast who likes to watch.
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7. Food Penetration
Most of us have turned, in a pinch, to carrots or cucumbers or other phallic shaped foods, for a dildo substitute. And some of us really enjoy this experience, above and beyond its practical solution.
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8. Nyotaimori
The idea of serving food off of a naked body is a longstanding practice of decadence and kink. It was common among the larger-than-life courtesans of the Belle Epoch, whose parties featured naked beauties as serving dishes.
Nyotaimori is the specific practice of using a naked person as a platter for sushi. It has been around for centuries, and was a practice of samurai coming home from battle. Today it is a tradition among wealthy, party-loving demographics, and for special occasions such as bachelor parties.
There are companies that provide beautiful models just for the cause. It is usually nude women who are desired, but if it is men, it is called “nantaimori.”
Read: 20 Japanese Fetishes and Kinks
9. Sensation Play
Sensation play isn’t a food fetish per se, but can make great use of a variety of foods.
Sensation play is all about experiencing and exploring a variety of sensual feelings. It’s about touch, smell, sound, taste, and sight. Food can provide different flavors, scents, temperatures, and visual stimulation.
Read: How the 5 Senses Affect Our Kinks and Fetishes
10. Body Shots
Another party food fetish is the practice of taking shots of booze off of a human body, for example, from the navel.
11. Feeding Each Other
Feeding a lover is another ancient practice that shows up in romantic literature, cinema, and bedrooms everywhere. It’s such an intimate act that it can be highly erotic. You don’t have to have a specific food fetish to enjoy the experience, but for some, being fed or feeding someone else is a kink of its own.
12. Vomit Fetish
Also known as emetophilia, or the Roman shower, the vomit fetish depends on food. While rare, some people are turned on by the sounds, smells, and sight of someone vomiting and the resulting vomit.
13. Food as Aphrodisiac
Various foods have long been considered aphrodisiacs, with different eras and cultures focusing on different foods.
Some foods are aphrodisiacs because they are so nutritious, our hormones respond to the nutrients positively. Others are associated with sex because of how the food looks, such as the oyster, which resembles female genitalia. Others have a mythological symbolism from folklore and cultural legends passed down.
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