Hmmmm trying to go mainstream before the truth hits the fan? …..
THE texture was good, it looked tasty, there was a nice hint of spice… and if Gwen hadn't have spent all day cooking it, she'd probably never have guessed that the sausage she was eating had been made from human blood.
She'd invited one of her friends over to try the meaty dish as well, and served it up at a candlelit table with a side salad and a gourmet-style bloody drizzle. They both agreed: too much soy sauce, but otherwise delicious.
Last month Gwen van der Zwan, from the Netherlands, tried cannibalism for the first time.
However, she's no Hannibal Lecter and no humans were hurt in the making of her dinner.
Instead, she made the meal from her own blood - which she had painstakingly drained into a medical bag that day - after becoming fascinated with the idea of trying a human sausage.
"Why is my idea considered disgusting, but doing the same thing with pigs' blood isn't?" she asked at the time.
'37-year-old male seeks cute piece of meat'
Although she's rare in acting publicly on her unusual tastes, Gwen is far from the only one to be fascinated by cannibalism.
Dating-style fetish sites match up those desperate for human flesh with those who want nothing more than to be eaten alive themselves.
"Cannibal seeks meal," one post reads. "This 37 year old male seeks a nice cute piece of meat. I prefer girls."
Another says: "I'm a thirty-something man looking for a female so we can sample each other's flesh. Cut together, cook together, and eat together. Non-lethal cuts so we can enjoy eating one another."
Would-be victims refer to themselves as "longpigs" - a term meaning human flesh which was used by man-eating Pacific islanders who thought people tasted like pork.
But why would anyone want to eat, or be eaten by, someone else?
Experts say that cannibalism is largely to do with power - breaking the 'ultimate taboo' leaves man-eaters feeling euphoric.
Therapist Karen Hylen has even suggested that cannibalism can become addictive for a small number of people with psychopathic tendencies, comparing the act of eating someone to a cocaine high.
On Reddit, a growing number of posters chat openly about their fascination with cannibalism, although comments seem to often be driven more by a morbid curiosity than anything else.
Bill Schutt, author of Cannibalism: A Perfectly Natural History, ate a human placenta when writing his book.
He told Sun Online: "We think cannibalism is revolting because that's what our culture dictates.
"Other cultures that didn’t get that memo have had very different attitudes toward cannibalism.
"For example, in the mid-20th century, the Wari people of Brazil were apparently just as upset to find that Western anthropologists buried their dead as the anthropologists were aghast to learn that the Wari ate their loved ones after they died."
The man who served his friends foot tacos
In June, a 38-year-old man took to Reddit to share the story (verified by Vice) of a dinner party where his friends tucked into a meal made from his amputated foot.
After a motorbike accident in 2016, he had the smashed limb cut off - and doctors let him keep it.
Then, three weeks later, he threw a brunch for ten willing friends where the main course was tacos made from the flesh which had been amputated.
The anonymous man posted photos of the dish, and explained how he kept his mangled foot in the freezer until it was time to cook it…..(Cont.)
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://www.thesun.co.uk/news/7067752/online-self-cannibalism/