By the way, I've heard that food allusion before and it doesn't fly.
We are FAR more obsessed with food than with sex.
Go to the library and look at the food/recipe/books... there are tons.
Even men think about food more than they think about sex.
Not sure about that last statement.
No one sells phone cards with pictures of a T-bone steak on it.
Not even remotely close. Men (I'm one of them) think about food when we're hungry. We think about sex hundreds of times daily.
"We are FAR more obsessed with food than with sex."
You may want to consult the advertising industry on this one, if not a criminologist or sexual psychologist.
"Even men think about food more than they think about sex."
I wonder if a man is more likely to think about food during sex, or sex during a meal?
The author is correct: Our culture has a fixation on/obsession with sex.