Sex, Food and Rock'n'roll

Tuesday 1 November 2005

“If sex really can sell anything, why not food?” asks farmer Durwin Banks, who is setting out to change life between the covers at the biggest sex show in Europe this week (Nov 17th – 20th).

What is a farmer doing going to Erotica? What has food got to do with sex?

Everything, according to Durwin, who will take his home-produced High Barn Oils Linseed Oil – supplied with paintbrush for your pleasure – and Linseed Pods to Olympia’s funky adult lifestyle festival.

“We do have a serious message to give out,” says Durwin. “That is that younger and younger people are getting diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol and other ailments that require medication. These illnesses and the drugs needed to control them can affect arousal and sex. The wrong food is a major cause of the problems; the right food can prolong both your life and your sex life.

“Men and women need good blood pressure to supply the erogenous zones – the better pressure, the more the pleasure.”

Linseed contains the essential fatty acids, Omega 3 and 6, plus Omega 9 – vital for building healthy membranes around each of the body’s 700 million million cells.

“You have to keep the saturated and unsaturated fats in the right balance to keep the chemical factory that is your body going,” says Durwin. “It is the balance of these fats that we get so wrong by eating hardly any Omega 3 and too much Omega 6. What’s worse is that we eat huge quantities of man-made hydrogenated vegetable oil in lots of processed foods that our chemical factory does not have the blueprint to use. This oil is killing us.”

He argues that big food manufacturers have got consumers hooked on food laced with the flavour enhancer monosodium glutamate, sugar and salt. “These foods are addictive. We need to be eating less, but better and good food does have flavour. If you prepare it yourself it doesn’t need all the preservatives, e numbers and hydrogenated oil. Your taste buds might need time to adjust, but your partner will thank you for it!” says Durwin.

“Farmers grow the right food for your chemical factory and should be valued for it. Shop at your farmers market, try to eat seasonal foods and read the labels. If it contains hydrogenated fat, don’t eat it,” is his advice.