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November 13, 2025

 

 

BEHAVIORAL STUDIES

Life in Beige Are GLP-1’s worth a life devoid of pleasure?

By Allison P. Davis

Photo: Jacob Moscovitch; Prop styling: Stevie Remsberg

You screw like you eat. I call this the Rule of Nigella Lawson: You can gauge someone’s baseline relationship to pleasure by how they approach a meal. If they turn a night out at a restaurant or cooking at home into a bacchanalian event; if they see a perfectly seared steak approaching the table and start salivating in anticipation; if they relish in sucking on a saucy buffalo wing, even when other people are watching, or audibly moan over a perfectly composed bite, it’s clear they respect desire and therefore will probably be outstanding in bed. (If they don’t like to eat, well, I have my doubts about their abilities.) It’s a biochemical connection as much as a philosophical one. The same part of the brain responsible for food cravings is associated with sexual desire. Voracious eaters fuck better. Put it on an apron.

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