**Cisco[b/], I’ve seen Strangeland quite a few times, and I have to say I’ve wondered the same thing, but honestly, I had always assumed it can’t be far from off.
What happens in that film is really just an extention of (or one step further along) BDSM and pain/pleasure type deals. Many people get erotic pleasure from getting a peircing, and many people like bondage, etc. I don’t see the film as anything but grounded in reality.
This, however, is amazing. That someone would willingly eat themselves is one of the most remarkably peculiar things I’ve ever heard of. Ok, the most.
I have a question. Given a fresh human body-not one that you had killed as in the story but one that died of natural causes-why is eating it so disgusting an idea ( not that I would or have any desire to, I’m just saying if someone wanted to ) yet putting it in the ground for worms to eat respectful? I’m just wondering why the taboo is so strong. I mean, I’m the one wondering about it, and I wouldn’t eat human flesh either.
There just isn’t anything wierd or peverse and grotesque left to do, that has not been done - for real.
This story reminds me of the remarkable saga of that Japanese fellow who ate a European woman (non-consentually), managed to beat the rap by pleading insanity, going back to Japan, and being declared sane. :rolleyes: :mad:
And then he became a darling of the artsy set over there - a kind of depraved cultural icon. Wierd and creepy:
"What made the situation worse was how he reveled in what he did and was only too happy to tell people about it on television talk shows. He even agreed to appear in several Japanese pornographic films, and he wrote four novels. The one in which he described the details of his murder sold over 200,000 copies. Thanks to his father, he’d gotten away with murder, and he was quite proud of it.
Now Sagawa enjoys being the focus of tabloid media, granting interviews and making videos to indulge the voyeuristic curiosity of those who want to get closer to someone who has eaten human flesh. He apparently finds the attention amusing and does not feel that he did anything wrong. “The public has made me the godfather of cannibalism,” he stated, “and I am happy about that.”
The Rolling Stones wrote and recorded a song about Sagawa’s gory deed, calling it, “Too much Blood,” and Sagawa tried his hand at a comic book version of the story. He also wrote a weekly column for a tabloid publication, edited an anthology of cannibal fantasies, and was featured on the cover of a Japanese gourmet magazine. Under an assumed name, he even managed to get women to pose nude for him."
Whoa, the penis was flambeed? Did they have the Hibatchi right there in the room, or did they stop the bleeding of thie “victim” long enough for the cookout?
Weirddave - Coincidentally, before I hoped this thread I’d just finished reading a book called “Custom of the Sea”, which illustrates one of many instances when shipwrecked sailors sacrificed one among them to provide food (and more often blood, which was more precious because of their lack of fresh water). In this book, even the brother of the killed and eaten cabin boy made statements that he understood and approved of the captain’s actions, and shook the captain’s hand in the courtroom during the trial. Apparently this was so accepted by the sea-faring community that everyone, from the captain to the common sailors on the wharf, were disbelieving when the Crown prosecuted them, then found them guilty. Captain Dudley said that the prosecution wouldn’t stop the practice, only force the sailors who resort to cannibalism to lie about it.
Well, that is hideously messed up. Some things are just so sick it’s hard to pinpoint a level on the sick scale I guess.
Although this would go a long way to explaining why there aren’t that many people in the love thread I posted. When I came in here, they were right next to each other. Heh.
First the Elizabeth Smart case making me think of ** The Green Mile ** (two sisters, taken by crazy man, sexually assaulted, wrong person dies in jail, heavy religious overtones) now this and the short story “Survivor Type.”