Eating boogers-cannibalism?

[I_m_Gandhi_Dammit]

Does eating your own boogers qualify as “cannibalism”?

[Richard_Pearse]

No

[Ponster]

“cannibalism” refers to the eating of human flesh (or an animal eating the flesh of another animal of the same kind), so feasting on your nasal mucus won’t get you either imprisioned nor sent to hell

[beagledave]

@Ponster

“cannibalism” refers to the eating of human flesh (or an animal eating the flesh of another animal of the same kind), so feasting on your nasal mucus won’t get you either imprisioned nor sent to hell

Swallowing after fellatio though…

[Colophon]

@beagledave

Swallowing after fellatio though…

Er… flesh?? My advice… if she starts chewin’, zip up an’ start runnin’…

[Little_Cloud]

Nope. It’s self grooming - much like biting off a ragged piece of a fingernail. Carry on.

[Excalibre]

@I'm Gandhi Dammit

Does eating your own boogers qualify as “cannibalism”?

I’m sure Miss Manners would agree that, regardless of whether or not it’s cannibalism, it’s still not proper etiquette.

I prefer Kleenex.

[dantheman]

@Excalibre

I’m sure Miss Manners would agree that, regardless of whether or not it’s cannibalism, it’s still not proper etiquette.

I prefer Kleenex.

And how do Kleenex taste?

[Scarlett67]

@Excalibre

I’m sure Miss Manners would agree that, regardless of whether or not it’s cannibalism, it’s still not proper etiquette.

Actually, she has addressed this topic (

[Scarlett67]

@Excalibre

I’m sure Miss Manners would agree that, regardless of whether or not it’s cannibalism, it’s still not proper etiquette.

Actually, she has addressed this topic (Miss Manners’ Guide to Excruciatingly Corret Behavior, p. 249): “In manners, . . . the only recognized act is one that has been witnessed. The number of practices, disgusting or exciting, usual or unusual, in which you wish to engage in private is of no concern to society.”

So as long as no one sees you, pick away with Miss Manners’ blessing.

[Excalibre]

@Scarlett67

Actually, she has addressed this topic (Miss Manners’ Guide to Excruciatingly Corret Behavior, p. 249): “In manners, . . . the only recognized act is one that has been witnessed. The number of practices, disgusting or exciting, usual or unusual, in which you wish to engage in private is of no concern to society.”

So as long as no one sees you, pick away with Miss Manners’ blessing.

At first I thought you meant she’d addressed it directly.
Gentle reader,

Miss Manners assures you that, within the privacy of ones own home, such practices, while perhaps unhygienic, are not unmannerly in the least. Why, Miss Manners herself, when her (normally crisply starched) hankerchiefs are in the washing machine, has been known to eat her boogers.
Anyway, you’re right that if no one sees it, it’s not bad manners. I assume, though, that you are also expected to refrain from discussing it with others.