Cultural References
- In the novel Portnoy's Complaint by Philip Roth, the main character, Alexander Portnoy, masturbates using a liver steak as well as a cored-out apple.
- In Seijun Suzuki's 1967 film Branded to Kill, protagonist Goro Hanada (Joe Shishido) has a food fetish in which he must sniff boiling rice in order to become sexually aroused or enthusiastic about his life and career as a hitman.
- Sex with fruit is similarly discussed in the "Rome" scene in Night on Earth, where a taxicab driver played by Roberto Benigni confesses to his passenger—a priest—of having had sex with a pumpkin as a child.
- In the Seinfeld episode "The Blood", George "combined food and sex into one disgusting uncontrollable urge" according to Jerry. George and food-play partner Vivian have a particular fetish for pastrami, which both Vivian and George find to be "the most sensual of the salted cured meats."
- The Japanese comedy film Tampopo has a subplot in which a couple makes erotic use of food.
- In the erotic drama film 9 1/2 Weeks, John feeds a blindfolded Elizabeth various foods as foreplay, including strawberries.
- A character in the film American Pie has sex with a warm apple pie.
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