Food and desire go hand in hand, the enjoyment of food transcends the notion of eating to live, and living to eat is something else entirely. Greed and gluttony are intricately woven together, and lust is a not so distant sin, for all three speak of yearning and craving. Obviously I’m talking in terms of excesses here, but then aren’t we has humans drawn to the spectacle of such a thing? We speak of a person having a sweet tooth, and obviously food is predisposed to be associated with the mouth, it is an oral endeavour, with the act of eating proving to be an intimate affair, animals are vulnerable when they eat, and to ingest a substance is to alter ones very structure. We are what we eat.

Kissing is actually a rather strange concept, to stop and think about the act of pressing ones lips against those of another, is certainly perplexing. It seemingly expresses a desire to consume the object of one’s affections, and all of the same risks of eating apply. Intimate, vulnerable, and perhaps at risk from the onslaught of shared microscopic bacteria, a scientific breakdown perhaps makes the act less romantic, less sacred, and less poetic. Sugar is a funny thing, and in a modern day western world we are slaves to the all encompassing nature of such consumption. Mood swings, cravings, and urges, the result of too many treats, or the longing for another?