Everything you want to know about what people actually understand in guilty pleasures.
What is a guilty pleasure? How do you define it? I guess you too, would have hard times putting the concept into words, so I tried to get an answer in one of my main guilty pleasures: the internet. Surprisingly enough, dictionary.com and Wikipedia gave me only echoes of the expression. Google didn’t react either.

What’s the next step? How about try hitting Google with “guilty pleasure is defined as” — finally, a couple of hints.

* “A guilty pleasure is defined as something you enjoy, even though you know it’s bad for you.” Stephen Wong
* “A Guilty Pleasure is defined as something that would ruin us if our friends knew about it.” MissKendy

This website is more about the things you enjoy in your life: little secrets of cuisine sprinkled with a glass of delicate wine, shared with someone at a fancy dinner or in a hut, around the fire. It’s about you and your hidden desires, about the bazaar of human pleasures, seen as more or less guilty.

Also because there’s a library section here, bare with me and read a couple of term definitions I find principial for the Guilty Pleasure website.

guilty: adjective
1. responsible for or chargeable with a reprehensible act; “guilty of murder”; “the guilty person”; “secret guilty deeds” [ant: clean-handed]
2. showing a sense of guilt; “a guilty look”; “the hangdog and shamefaced air of the retreating enemy”- Eric Linklater

pleasure: noun
1. the state or feeling of being pleased.
2. enjoyment or satisfaction derived from what is to one’s liking; gratification; delight.
3. worldly or frivolous enjoyment: the pursuit of pleasure.
4. recreation or amusement; diversion; enjoyment: Are you traveling on business or for pleasure?
5. sensual gratification.
6. a cause or source of enjoyment or delight: It was a pleasure to see you.
7. pleasurable quality: the pleasure of his company.
8. one’s will, desire, or choice: to make known one’s pleasure.

Definitions from dictionary.com.

What else there’s left?
You tell me.

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