# "Go eat a dick." "Ok, don't mind if I do."
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/go-eat-a-dick-ok-dont-mind-if-i-do/623118
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [May 25, 2012, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/go-eat-a-dick-ok-dont-mind-if-i-do/623118 "2012-05-25T22:26:58Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)
#### Post date: [May 25, 2012, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/go-eat-a-dick-ok-dont-mind-if-i-do/623118/1 "2012-05-25T22:26:58Z")
Fair warning: this is probably the most not-mind-safe, get out the brain-bleach, “Oh God, I immediately regret clicking that link” kind of article you’ll see.
I’m even putting a “spoiler space” so no one gets traumatized by the mouse-over.
An asexual man in Japan had his genitals surgically removed, then he cooked them up and served them to guests.
Spoilering the link because it might sort of be not work safe?
[spoiler]And breaking the URL, copy and paste this:
> **[Chef Serves Up Own Genitals At Banquet (GRAPHIC PHOTOS)](https://www.huffpost.com/entry/asexual-mao-sugiyama-cooks-serves-own-genitals_n_1543307?ref=weird-news)**
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> Chef Serves Up Own Genitals At Banquet (GRAPHIC PHOTOS)
Warning: There are pictures in the article of the “main course.” And for me, when I loaded the page (on Firefox,) it loaded with the page all the way scrolled down to the bottom, where the pictures are.
> [@](#):
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> Just days after Sugiyama’s 22nd birthday, the artist underwent elective genital-removal surgery, divvied up the severed penis shaft, testicles, and scrotal skin between five people, and garnished it with button mushrooms and Italian parsley.
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> On April 13, five of six diners who signed up for the $250-a-plate feast, sat down to dinner. The sixth person was a no-show.
Many questions come to mind (why would he do this, why would anyone else want to eat that, why are we fascinated by it, how did canabalism ‘slip through the cracks’ of the Japanese legal system, etc…) but for some reason, the _one thing_ I’m most curious about is:
Why the Hell did he only charge $250 a plate?! I’d like to think that with the rarity of such a “dish,” and the type of people who ‘get off’, for lack of a better phrase, on spending gobs on money on crazy, rare, ‘once in a lifetime’ kind of shit like this, that he easily could have gotten $1000 a plate or more. I mean…you’d think at the very least he’d want enough to pay for the surgery and medical care he needed!
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### Author:  [@Rigamarole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rigamarole)
#### Post date: [May 25, 2012, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/go-eat-a-dick-ok-dont-mind-if-i-do/623118/2 "2012-05-25T23:04:47Z")
That actually looks delicious. I wonder what it tasted like?
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### Author:  [@Darth\_Panda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Panda)
#### Post date: [May 25, 2012, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/go-eat-a-dick-ok-dont-mind-if-i-do/623118/3 "2012-05-25T23:07:40Z")
He should have braised it in wine, lardons, mushrooms, and garlic.
Cock-au-Vin
😛
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### Author:  [@Taomist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taomist)
#### Post date: [May 25, 2012, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/go-eat-a-dick-ok-dont-mind-if-i-do/623118/4 "2012-05-25T23:56:21Z")
> [@Darth\_Panda](#):
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> He should have braised it in wine, lardons, mushrooms, and garlic.
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> Cock-au-Vin
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> 😛
Win!! 😛
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### Author:  [@voltaire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/voltaire)
#### Post date: [May 26, 2012, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/go-eat-a-dick-ok-dont-mind-if-i-do/623118/5 "2012-05-26T00:14:03Z")
Ok, at this point Japan is just rubbing it in the noses of other countries who aspire to be weird.
You might even say they’re getting cocky.
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### Author:  [@Farmer\_Jane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Farmer_Jane)
#### Post date: [May 26, 2012, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/go-eat-a-dick-ok-dont-mind-if-i-do/623118/6 "2012-05-26T00:25:05Z")
Another reason why I’m a little weary of people who are just obsessed with Japan.
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### Author:  [@wellanuff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wellanuff)
#### Post date: [May 26, 2012, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/go-eat-a-dick-ok-dont-mind-if-i-do/623118/7 "2012-05-26T02:01:25Z")
I am going to say I am extremely skeptical of the truth of this story. First of all, I am having a hard time finding articles about it in Japanese from reliable media sources.
It just screams hoax. The dining “event” may have happened, but I am extremely doubtful that any human flesh was actually served and consumed.
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### Author:  [@Enkel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enkel)
#### Post date: [May 26, 2012, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/go-eat-a-dick-ok-dont-mind-if-i-do/623118/8 "2012-05-26T03:39:52Z")
Few things make me genuinely ill… but this one did.
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### Author:  [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)
#### Post date: [May 26, 2012, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/go-eat-a-dick-ok-dont-mind-if-i-do/623118/9 "2012-05-26T04:59:17Z")
> [@wellanuff](#):
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> I am going to say I am extremely skeptical of the truth of this story. First of all, I am having a hard time finding articles about it in Japanese from reliable media sources.
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> It just screams hoax. The dining “event” may have happened, but I am extremely doubtful that any human flesh was actually served and consumed.
Yeah, my BS meter is pinging hard on this one. But who knows? Among other things, I just can’t imagine that sort of “medical waste” would be released in such a manner in Japan, assuming the person who performed it was a licensed doctor. I mean, if I got my bits cut off here in the US, I assume I wouldn’t be allowed to take them home with me, even if I wanted to, right?
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### Author:  [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)
#### Post date: [May 26, 2012, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/go-eat-a-dick-ok-dont-mind-if-i-do/623118/10 "2012-05-26T05:04:25Z")
And the secret ingredient this week on iron chef is…
YOUR BALLZ!
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### Author:  [@Ale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ale)
#### Post date: [May 26, 2012, 1:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/go-eat-a-dick-ok-dont-mind-if-i-do/623118/11 "2012-05-26T13:02:38Z")
Well, that just about ruins it from now on whenever my GF tells me to go out to eat Japanese…
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### Author:  [@coffeecat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/coffeecat)
#### Post date: [May 26, 2012, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/go-eat-a-dick-ok-dont-mind-if-i-do/623118/12 "2012-05-26T13:12:41Z")
Where the hell do you find a doctor who’ll do that kind of surgery? I knew a woman who had a hard time finding a doctor to tie her tubes!
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### Author:  [@SeaDragonTattoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SeaDragonTattoo)
#### Post date: [May 26, 2012, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/go-eat-a-dick-ok-dont-mind-if-i-do/623118/13 "2012-05-26T13:35:42Z")
Eh, I’m not buying it. The pictures are indistinct, the cooked and plated pics could be anything. It’s not like cooked testes of other animals is unheard of or difficult to come by for some hoax pics. The baggie could have a pork chop in it for all I can tell.
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### Author:  [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/not_what_you_d_expect)
#### Post date: [May 26, 2012, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/go-eat-a-dick-ok-dont-mind-if-i-do/623118/14 "2012-05-26T13:44:48Z")
Did the Dr. butcher up the parts and keep them refrigerated for the guy while he recovered?
I smell something, but I don’t think it’s cooked penis.
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### Author:  [@Folacin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Folacin)
#### Post date: [May 26, 2012, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/go-eat-a-dick-ok-dont-mind-if-i-do/623118/15 "2012-05-26T15:08:10Z")
> [@pulykamell](#):
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> I mean, if I got my bits cut off here in the US, I assume I wouldn’t be allowed to take them home with me, even if I wanted to, right?
I’m on the ‘likely BS’ bandwagon - but I know that (many years ago) my brother got to take his tonsils home in a jar.
I wouldn’t be surprised if they don’t let you do that anymore, though.
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### Author:  [@Shagnasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shagnasty)
#### Post date: [May 26, 2012, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/go-eat-a-dick-ok-dont-mind-if-i-do/623118/16 "2012-05-26T15:31:44Z")
This one may or may not be BS but there the story of the German man who volunteered to be eaten by a cannibal that is 100% true and contains some of the same elements (the man who was killed and eaten was also the coworker of a board member). Germany and Japan are always a wacky pair but Germany still wins the gold.
“On the evening of March 9, the two men went up to the bedroom in Meiwes’ rambling timbered farmhouse. Mr Brandes swallowed 20 sleeping tablets and half a bottle of schnapps before Meiwes cut off Brandes’ penis, with his agreement, and fried it for both of them to eat.”
> **[Victim of cannibal agreed to be eaten](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2003/dec/04/germany.lukeharding)**
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> In one of the most extraordinary trials in German criminal history, a self-confessed cannibal admitted that he had met a Berlin engineer after advertising on the internet, and had chopped him up and eaten him.
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### Author:  [@Chef\_Troy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chef_Troy)
#### Post date: [May 26, 2012, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/go-eat-a-dick-ok-dont-mind-if-i-do/623118/17 "2012-05-26T16:44:06Z")
I heard he was only going to have 50 percent of it removed, but he didn’t want to go off half-cocked.
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### Author:  [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)
#### Post date: [May 26, 2012, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/go-eat-a-dick-ok-dont-mind-if-i-do/623118/18 "2012-05-26T17:43:15Z")
I also managed to find [this story](http://calorielab.com/news/2012/05/17/tokyo-ham-cybele-human-genital-banquet-not-illegal/) on it (again, possibly disturbing pictures in the article.)
Still might be faked, but the artist is a real person, this is his (her? one story says he identifies as asexual, the other says transexual…) [website.](http://h-c.main.jp/)
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### Author:  [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)
#### Post date: [May 26, 2012, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/go-eat-a-dick-ok-dont-mind-if-i-do/623118/19 "2012-05-26T18:50:06Z")
> [@Ale](#):
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> Well, that just about ruins it from now on whenever my GF tells me to go out to eat Japanese…
Its recommended to Always laugh at the chefs jokes at a Japanese Steakhouse. With those knives, you wouldn’t want to tempt them to castrate you & serve you up with rice.
Or flip the cooked bits into a table guests mouth…
_flips testicle into hat_
_scared applause_
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### Author:  [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)
#### Post date: [May 26, 2012, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/go-eat-a-dick-ok-dont-mind-if-i-do/623118/20 "2012-05-26T21:17:50Z")
What were they going to do if somebody wanted seconds?
Regards,
Shodan
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