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Get Weird and Naughty with These Sexy Gingerbread Men

The recipe for these classic gingerbread cookies come from romance author Lynn Hubbard, who recommends that you "squirt icing on your man and enjoy him."
Photo via Flickr userKate Farquharson

Here's the thing with gingerbread: during the holiday season, we tend to spend a lot more time thinking about it than we do actually eating it. After all, who has ever actually consumed the entirety of an ornate, gumdrop-encrusted gingerbread house that they constructed? Or nibbled beyond the head of a single, grinning gingerbread man?

Here's something else to consider: Is a gingerbread man actually wearing any clothes, or just a series of frosting buttons trailing down his chest toward his nether regions? Have you ever wondered if gingerbread men—being men, after all—are maybe a little bit sexualized?

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Perhaps you haven't considered these questions, but thanks to Lynn Hubbard, we have. Lynn, you see, is the author of The Gingerbread Man: A Scrumptious Erotic Fairy Tale, which will make you think of those innocent-looking cookies in entirely new and different ways.

Once you've read her story—call it an awakening, if you will—you might find yourself actually craving a bite of gingerbread.

RECIPE: The Perfect (Gingerbread) Man

Whip up a warm batch of these bad boys and let your mind take you where it takes you. "The man is supposed to taste like icing, sugar, and spice," Lynn says. Sounds nice.

At her recommendation, squirt icing on your man and enjoy him. (She really did say that.)