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o r t s a n d s c a n t l i n g s | mark morton Eat Your Words Itâs no secret that the language of food and the language of sex often tangle and interpenetrate, like the tongues of kissing cousins. More surprising, perhaps, is that often the offspring of the two is cannibalism. Sometimes that cannibalism is metaphorical and affectionate: âI could just eat you up!â squeals a smitten lover, ï¬inging her arms around a sweetheartâs neck. Sometimes itâs sinister and allegorical: âThe better to eat you with,â cries the Big Bad Wolf, jumping out of the bedclothes and onto a red-hooded girl. And sometimes itâs all too literal and horrifying: âI send you half the kidney I took from one woman,â writes Jack the Ripper about his prostitute victim. âTâother piece I fried and ate.â Medieval theologians linked food and sex by stressing that their corresponding sins, gluttony and lechery, are both sins of excess, of concupiscence. Even today we acknowledge that connection through words that apply equally to food and sex: âappetite,â âcraving,â âhunger.â Likewise, Freud noted that food and sex are linked in the parallel taboos of cannibalism and
Gastronomica: The Journal of Food and Culture – University of California Press
Published: Jan 1, 2004
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