Food and Foodways· 2026Q1
Lustful Appetites: An Intimate History of Good Food and Wicked Sex
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Short summary
Anglo-Victorian ideals prescribed bland, joyless food to suppress desire, linking 'good' eating with sexual repression and 'bad' eating with forbidden pleasures.
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Key points
- Anglo-Victorian ideals promoted bland food (brown bread, wheat mush) as 'good' and desirable.
- This 'good' food was intended to suppress sexual desire and 'lustful appetites'.
- Conversely, 'bad' or 'wicked' food was associated with forbidden pleasures and queer desires.
- The prescribed diet served as a tool to control both culinary and sexual appetites.
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Abstract
Imagine a plate of brown bread and wheat mush, devoid of any spices or joy – food that is neither sexy nor queer. That was the ideal diet prescribed in Anglo-Victorian Britain and the US for the ro...
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