 The sense of taste is but one zone where the aesthetic dimensions of bodily sensation are recognized and explored, in dramatic contrast to the traditional idea that aesthetic “distance” is required for the true apprehension of art. Erotic desires, sexuality, and bodily sensation in general are increasingly central elements both of art and of aesthetic discourse, and feminist investigators have been among the important contributors to this movement (Lintott 2003; Lorde 2007; Grosz 2008; Lintott and Irvin 2016).