Meaning of gastrosexual | Babel Free

Definitions

Having interest in food and cooking, often as a means of expression or to make an impression on friends and potential romantic interests.

Examples

“The point I am making here is that, whereas the consumption of male semen is ritualistically constituted in pornography and culinary literature as the 'essence' of the gastrosexual condition, female secretions, by way of contrast, are represented as 'abject', potential health hazards, and are excluded from the gastrosexual symbolic.”

“In the gastrosexual persona, we observe male chefs embracing an emotionally-charged caretaking role through food production. The gastrosexual persona represents a masculinity that complicates gender role boundaries in terms of both actions and affect.”

“Prescott in many ways carries on the "gastrosexual" legacy of Oliver but as I suggest he offers a more millennial updated take on food masculinity, blending elements of all Johnston and colleagues's male chef persona traits, including the chef artisan, the maverick, the gastrosexual, and the self-made man as well as representing what I am calling a "meatrosexual."”

“While gastrosexual "foodies" express great enthusiasm for all things food, the dude's relationship to food remains ambivalent.”

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