“You can get a large audience together for a strip-tease – that is, to watch a girl  undress on the stage. Now suppose you came to a country where you could fill a  theatre by simply bringing a covered plate on to the stage and then slowly lifting  the cover so as to let every one see; just before the lights went out, that it  contained a mutton chop or a bit of bacon, would you not think that in that  country something had gone wrong with the appetite for food? And would not  anyone who had grown up in a different world think there was something equally  queer about the state of the sex instinct among us?

One critic said that if he found a country in which such strip-tease acts with food  were popular, he would conclude that the people of that country were starving.  He meant, of course, to imply that such things as the strip-tease act resulted not  from sexual corruption but from sexual starvation. I agree with him that if, in  some strange land, we found that similar acts with mutton chops were popular,  one of the possible explanations which would occur to me would be famine.”

~ C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity