Hoover: Food, the New Sex?
February 2, 2010
Nothing quite says, "Happy Valentine's Day" like the February/March 2010 issue of Policy Review, from the Bay Area's Hoover Institute.
In particular, there's Mary Eberstadt's essay, "Is Food the New Sex?: A Curious Reversal in Moralizing."
Here's an excerpt:
"Who can doubt that the two trends are related? Unable or unwilling (or both) to impose rules on sex at a time when it is easier to pursue it than ever before, yet equally unwilling to dispense altogether with a universal moral code that he would have bind society against the problems created by exactly that pursuit, modern man (and woman) has apparently performed his own act of transubstantiation. He has taken longstanding morality about sex, and substituted it onto food. The all-you-can-eat buffet is now stigmatized; the sexual smorgasbord is not."
The full essay is here.
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