\u201cBeauty should be edible, or not at all.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2015 Salvador Dal\u00ed<\/p>\n
A Google search with the keywords \u201cfood sexuality India\u201d spills telling, though unsurprising, results<\/a>: the pleasures of food are inextricably linked to the pleasures of sex. The common links could be sensory pleasure derived from looking, tasting, smelling, and touching, or from the fulfilment a shared meal or a shared intimacy can lend. The Korean muk-bang<\/em> phenomenon, loosely called food porn, plunges into just those pleasures for its viewership as it slurps and burps its way into our Video Page<\/a> this issue.<\/p>\n The mystique of sexuality is akin to the mystique of food; our cultures are preoccupied with understanding what they each do to us in the spectrum of creation, subsistence, and sentience. A determined reader sniffs out advice from Alice about using foods to influence sexual pleasure in the FAQ Corner<\/a> while we present contraceptive\/abortion-inducing foods as this month\u2019s Brushstrokes<\/a>. Noopur Raval\u2019s I-Column<\/a> deals with #PCOS4Ever, busting myths and coming to terms with polycystic ovary syndrome through a harrowing journey of dietary regulations and body image issues.<\/p>\n Like Noopur, people with menacing menstruation are also likely to have favourite phone apps to keep track of their periods. They\u2019re also likely to appreciate our Tech Corner<\/a> this month with its list of five body-positive app\u00ad\u00ads. Not just fruits and veggies, people come in all shapes and sizes too!<\/p>\n The incidence of body image issues is highly gendered<\/a>. The gender politics in Indian culture around food is interestingly dished out in Shikha Aleya\u2019s article<\/a>\u00a0as part of this month\u2019s Voices. The film East Side Sushi<\/em> (2015) unravels the gender divide in the culinary industry quite neatly, and\u00a0Kristin Francoeur stirs up its also poignant take on class politics\u00a0in her Review<\/a>\u00a0article. Food and the female aren\u2019t the only two Fs picked at in Shweta Krishnan\u2019s Issue In Focus<\/a>; it\u2019s also fertility, farming, family and feeding, the femme fatale<\/em> and other fetishes that she fingers.<\/p>\n All in all, a delectable issue you shouldn\u2019t have to wait to dig into. But before we leave you to it, we\u2019d like to bring your attention to our new Facebook and Twitter sharing feature: just select the portion of an article you want to share, and you can post it, link included, by simply clicking on the buttons that pop next to it. Try it out!<\/p>\n We also have a new archive for all our past\u00a0Corners<\/a>.<\/p>\n The mid-month Blogroll issue contains a blog post on the technicalities of photographing food to induce sex appeal.<\/a><\/p>\n As a plus, we share Radhika Chandiramani\u2019s nourishing food-for-thought interview<\/a> with us where she delves into the connections between food, sexuality and culture. As long as we\u2019re talking treats, Dipika Srivastava brings us another one with her translation<\/a> of the Issue In Focus into Hindi.<\/p>\n Sample it all, but remember to save some space for the next month\u2019s issue: Feminism and Sexuality promises to leave you begging for more.<\/p>\n And until then, happy reading!<\/p>\n The TARSHI team<\/p>\n Image taken from Brain Pickings<\/a>\u2019 feature on Salvador Dali\u2019s erotic cookbook<\/a>, <\/em>Les Diners de Gala.<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u201cBeauty should be edible, or not at all.\u201d \u2015 Salvador Dal\u00ed A Google search with the keywords \u201cfood sexuality India\u201d…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7003,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,65,515],"tags":[527,500,516,528,25],"class_list":{"0":"post-7002","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-categories","8":"category-editorial","9":"category-food","10":"tag-drink","11":"tag-editorial","12":"tag-food","13":"tag-salvador-dali","14":"tag-sexualities"},"menu_order":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7002"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7002\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16560,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7002\/revisions\/16560"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}