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Food play is a form of sexual fetishism in which participants are aroused by erotic situations involving food. It has overlapping characteristics with many other fetishes, such as wet and messy fetishism, stuck fetishism, Wakamezake, and Nyotaimori.

Fruit fetishism refers to a kind of sexual fetishism involving the use of fruit or vegetables for sexual gratification. It is a subdivision of food play. Such a fetish might arise from a number of circumstances.

Certain fruits have a phallic shape, and can be substitutes for dildos, useful for vaginal penetration of a woman, or anal penetration of either sex. Other fruits are so constituted that they can be sexually penetrated by a male, if an appropriate hole is drilled in them.^{[citation needed]}

In the novel Portnoy's Complaint by Philip Roth, the main character, Alexander Portnoy, masturbates using a cored-out apple. An apple pie is put to similar use in the film, American Pie. Sex with fruit is similarly discussed in the "Rome" scene in Night on Earth, where a taxicab driver played by Roberto Benigni confesses to his passenger — a priest — of having had sex with a pumpkin as a child:

"I lived in the country, where there weren't many women, and though you're still a kid, inside you feel a man's feeling, and there was no way to relieve this feeling. So the idea, not mine but a real intelligent friend of mine's, of relieving ourselves with, to make love with ... how do I say this? With pumpkins. Pumpkins. Warm, soft, damp, with seeds inside, so round -- and we would -- toom ta toom -- help me find the words, Father -- we relieved ourselves with these pumpkins."

The driver later describes how he later graduated to having sex with a sheep, and how these experiences developed into a fetish that ultimately compelled him to have sex with his sister-in-law:

"Father, that beautiful ass — pink, soft, round like a pumpkin. Those soft wool panties reminded of the sheep. The pumpkin, the sheep, my brother's wife, I was on fire!"

Fruits may also be used in foreplay, being rubbed against or eaten off of a lover's body, as was done in 9½ Weeks (and later parodied in Hot Shots! Part Deux). Depending on the consistency of the fruit used, this may border on wet and messy fetishism if not Nyotaimori.

For those who like to watch sexual activities involving fruit, a number of videos, websites and books are available which depict such activities.