Many cultures and arts throughout history have associated food and sexuality. I wanted to show this association in bondage scenes – a sadomasochistic practice of attaching her partner and inherited the binding techniques used in Japan (hojōjutsu). The motivation for this serie is to force the reader to question his relationship with regard to food and sexuality. Indeed, exchanges around sexuality have been freed in recent decades, thanks to sociological factors (for example women emancipation), technical (eg content and media on the internet) or behavioral (eg the quest for happiness). We talk about it on radio and music, we show it in video clips and advertisements, we expose it in magazines and websites, we discuss it in the intimacy of the couple or between friends. As a result, sexual practices formerly referred to as deviant or extreme such as sadomasochism, licentiousness or swinging become sexual traits and are no longer as hidden or ashamed – the notion of sexual deviance is now limited to what is prohibited by law. Places of meetings and specialized websites on the subject contribute to this release of morals, all fueled by ubiquitous, low cost advertising. We dare to deconstruct our fantasies and consider them as a stage to reach a sexual maturity or a desire to satisfy to reach the grail of our personal pleasure. Our relationship to food has also changed in recent decades. Globalization has introduced junk food while allowing us to access more diversity and more exoticism. The perpetual quest for new senses motivates the discovery of innovative paths and even the resurrection of species of the past with a different taste and a more authentic, less conformist appearance. The desire to eat better and healthier makes us return to a close, human, equitable and healthy agriculture. Better eating also complements the role of food in our social relations: as opposed to junk food that nourishes the individualism of our daily pressed and stressed, good food often always accommodates our social exchanges – discuss, enter into the confidence Or intimacy, is done around a coffee or a meal; Receive is accompanied by moments behind the furnaces. The finesse or richness of the dishes proposed are often proportional to the importance of the social act – food becomes an outward sign of education, good taste and wealth. Thus, beyond its role of vital need, food is a full-fledged player in activity and social proximity and resists to the individualism of our society. An actor in the consumer society that is accumulated and wasted. An actor of desire that one waits, that one cherishes even that one fantasizes. Actor of well-being, actor of socialization, a consumer actor, actor of ceremony – does not food take too many roles in our Western societies? Is it not just a reflection of ourselves? In the name of the quest for happiness, is there a link between food exoticism and sexual exoticism?
Frédéric Faure
