If you had to choose between eating a rich piece of chocolate cake and having mind-blowing sex, which would you pick?
If you’re finding it a tough call, here’s why: Food and sex are two of the strongest and most closely linked human desires. “The satisfaction from eating a delicious meal and the satisfaction from having sex both activate pleasure receptors in the brain,” says Audrey T. Cross, Ph. D., formerly a professor of nutrition at Columbia University’s School of Public Health. “This explains why humans often associate eating with sex.”