The appetite for food and the appetite for sex are the two most fundamental cravings of humanity. That is why many people feel they are intimately linked, and most languages have a saying or two that stress the connection.

Winter is the best season for oysters, for example, one of the rare foods both Asians and Westerners agree are "erotic.?? The legendary seducer Giacomo Casanova is thought to have eaten a dozen oysters as many as four times a day. With its slippery wetness, sticky liquid and fishy tang, the oyster is pure sensuality. There is a tangible effect on a man??s stamina since one oyster contains 30 times more zinc than an egg, and a man??s sperm count and testosterone level fall if his body is deficient in zinc.

Lobster, shrimp and other shellfish can also incite carnal desires. Hillary Johnstone, the author of ??Aphrodisiac Foods,?? says peeling open the shells and eating the flesh is strikingly similar to the sexual act, so it brings on erotic feelings unconsciously.

Cutting into a rare beef steak and releasing the scent of hot blood is a pleasure so intimate it turns some fastidious people off. But Wayne Golding, the chef of JW's Grill in the Marriott Hotel, Seoul, says it is a shame that some 80 percent of Koreans miss out on the fun by eating their steaks well done.

Among vegetables, garlic, onions and ginger are associated with sensuality. Onions, which were highly prized as a stimulant by the Roman poet Ovid, are commonly paired with garlic to intensify the effect. Fruit ripe to bursting also tend to remind many people of sex. Peaches famously look like tempting buttocks and are synonymous with beauty in the West. Red cherries have much the same effect in proverbially evoking lips, while the pomegranate bursting with seeds has been a symbol of both sexuality and fecundity since the days of ancient Greece.

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