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Food play

Form of sexual fetishism

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Food play, also known as sitophilia, refers to a form of sexual fetishism in which participants are aroused by erotic situations involving food.

Food play overlaps with other fetishes, including wet and messy fetishism, feederism, and nyotaimori. It is differentiated from vorarephilia in that food play fetishizes food while vore fetishizes the act of eating a living creature, or being eaten alive.

01Alcohol

A body shot is a shot of alcohol that is consumed from a person's body. Body shots are done either by taking a shot from a glass on a person's body, or the shot is poured onto a person's body and licked up by another person. The term "body shot" can also mean a shot drinking ritual that involves the use of another person's body, such as taking a shot from a glass and licking salt off a person's body afterwards.

Wakamezake (わかめ酒), also called wakame sake and seaweed sake, involves drinking alcohol from a woman's body. The woman closes her legs tight enough that the triangle between the thighs and mons pubis forms a cup, and then pours sake down her chest into this triangle. Her partner then drinks the sake from there. The name comes from the idea that the woman's pubic hair in the sake resembles soft seaweed (wakame) floating in the sea.

A female neo-burlesque performer pouring chocolate sauce over herself as part of a striptease
A female neo-burlesque performer pouring chocolate sauce over herself as part of a striptease
Two women getting ready for a body shot
Two women getting ready for a body shot
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Food and sexuality

Food and sexuality have been associated in various ways throughout history. Foods such as chocolate and oysters are said to be aphrodisiacs.

Nyotaimori

Nyotaimori on the female body'), often referred to as "body sushi", is the Japanese practice of serving sashimi or sushi from the naked body of a woman. The less common male variant is called nantaimori (男体盛り).

Vorarephilia

Vorarephilia is a paraphilia characterized by the erotic desire to be consumed by, or to personally consume, another person or creature. Vorarephilia can involve "soft" vore fantasies in which the victim is swallowed alive and whole, or sexual fantasies of cannibalism, also referred to as "hard" vore.