Following in suit with the Am I a Pedophile? thread, started by rastahomie, I need to ask a question. As a nervous habit, I routinely nibble on the dead skin that lines the edge of my finger (you know the stuff). I also chew it, and occasionally swallow it… Does this make me an autocannibal?
I do that a lot too. Especially when I"m either trying not to bite my nails, or I have no nails left. I rarely swallow the flesh though. Perhaps we can view it as recycling our own self???
I do it too, occasionally.
What the heck, it grows back… 
This is truly strange.
I was doing that very thing while waiting on the damn page to load.
I guess I can join the Cannibal Club, too. I’ve been doing this for oh…about thirty-five years now. Maybe we can vote me President or something.
I really must be a cannibal. I have a thing about “man-eating” anyway…
[sub]Talk about begging for a topic to be hijacked into sexual overtones… [/sub]
Since probably nearly everybody does this to some degree or another (sticking a bloody cut finger in their mouths, chewing on chapped lips, etc.), I don’t think that society would define this as cannibalism. That’s a label for what is considered a wierd and deviant behavior, and I don’t think that (if it came to a vote) people would be willing to apply it this. So no, I don’t think that we’re cannibals.
I actually ate my whole finger, but it grew back. Really. What does that make me? Hey, gimme back my aluminum foil hat!
Great, the Cy Spernin (sp?) of self-consumption:
I’m not just the President…I’m a consumer
Well, call me Hannibal and pass the brains. 
biting nailskin
— G. Raven
“munch munch”
hey, i do that to. i also chew on the inside of my mouth when i am nervous. but i dont chew on the fingernails themselves (they don’t taste very good)
I think that it refers to eating the flesh of someone of your own kind, not of your own. It’s been asked of oral sex here many times.
There’s a particularly horrible syndrome which can affect young males …
Anyone not already TMI’d can find more info here.
God alone knows how I remembered that. I’ve a memory like a sieve but 17 years ago went out with a med-student.
I always do that. If I cut myself, I don’t just lick the blood of, I have caught myself sucking as much out as I can… just a habit, I don’t do it on purpose.
I also used to lick the blood from bottom of those plastic/stryofoam plates your steaks come in when you buy them in the store when I was younger too, but I broke that habit at least.
I can’t believe I just admited to that.
I chew mine up pretty regularly, ever since I quit smoking. Before that, I would only do it when nervous or really bored. Prolly been at it for about thirty-seven years, altogether.
If I hadn’t had a pliers in one hand and a partially finished earring in the other, I most certainly would have been gnawing away while I waited for this page to load, too.
–Cannibal Kris
do you like to nibble on other people’s fingers Speaker?
A whole new meaning on the phrase finger food.
And my misreading of Tabithina’s sentence as:
If I hadn’t had a pliers in one hand and a partially finished ear in the other, I most certainly would have been gnawing away while I waited for this page to load, too.
Has left me with an image I’m going to struggle to get rid of. Pliers! The very thought.
Hey, I taste like chicken!