In case you didn’t know it, you’ve got three opportunities every day to be brazenly romantic. They’re called breakfast, lunch and dinner.

Chef Jenn and Dr. Jenn: really cooking.

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The truth is, eating is sensual.

Jennifer Gunsaullus, better known as Dr. Jenn, ought to know. She’s a San Diego-based sociologist who specializes in relationship and intimacy counseling. Her former online video podcast show about female sexuality, “In the Den with Dr. Jenn,” features more than 100 episodes that can still be viewed.

Now Dr. Jenn has teamed up with Chef Jenn (aka Jenn Felmley) on a just-released six-part DVD series titled, “Cooking Up Seduction.” Its episodes focus on topics including “Chocolate Body Paint,” the “Sexy Human Sundae” and, of course, “Sensual Eating.”

“Eating is one of our five senses,” says Dr. Jenn, a 16-year veteran of the sex and relationship field. “It’s sensual in that way. We’re disconnected from the sensuality of eating. That’s what this (video series) is about: bringing it back to your awareness.”

Consider the “Sensual Eating” episode. “You can smell the pineapple and the watermelon and the berries,” says Dr. Jenn. “Then you move into touching them. You’re getting into the tactile senses that way.”

According to the doc, eating an orange together is one of the most intimate things a couple can do together. No kidding.

How did Dr. Jenn and Chef Jenn get hooked up on this “Cooking Up Seduction” project?

“I’m part of a women’s networking group called Good Ol’ Gals,” Dr. Jenn says. “I was speaking there on mindful pleasures and sensuality and eating and intimacy, and Chef Jenn was in the audience that day. She came up to me and said, ‘We have a lot of overlap.’”

The video project was, says Dr. Jenn, “a merging of both of our passions.”

Dr. Jenn believes Americans are finally loosening up when it comes to talking about sexuality. Part of the reason for that is the ubiquity of the subject in the media, including on television. “Shows like Sex and the City had a huge impact on the public dialogue around sexuality,” says Dr. Jenn. “People have more of a comfort with it.”

Still, willingness to be open about sex isn’t going to happen overnight.

“Each new generation has to get used to these still otherwise taboo topics,” says Dr. Jenn, whose work in the field also includes running intimacy workshops and giving lectures around San Diego County. She’s hopeful this new video series will spark more open conversations between partners — and a lot more.