Design Academy Eindhoven graduate Roxanne Brennen has created a range of dining tools that enhance the pleasure of eating by releasing endorphins in the same way that sex does.
A series of irregularly shaped vessels, plates and utensils make up the Dining Toys collection, which Brennen is presenting during Dutch Design Week.
The objects are designed to encourage a playful way of eating, which helps to trigger the same brain activity as sexual foreplay.
“Your brain reacts to eating the same way that it reacts to sex,” Brennen told Dezeen. “It’s all about the pleasure centre being activated and the amount of endorphins released.”
She says the freedom to experiment and lose control can heighten sensation during sex, and has aimed to recreate this response in diners by encouraging them to experiment with spherical bowls, kidney-shaped spoons and plates that have blobby protrusions.
Brennen is originally from France, and says she was struck by a businesslike approach to mealtimes when she moved to the Netherlands. This lead her to research how formulaic traditions inhibit the western world from deriving maximum pleasure from food.
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