The next time a pretty girl tells you, "You look yummy. I feel like eating you", do not become too happy. She might be a cannibal and what she said might not have sexual connotations. You may say,” bah, cannibalism doe not exist in today's modern world. This guy is sensationalizing things". You are wrong.
Just two days back a case of cannibalism came to light in Chernovtsi, Ukraine. A group of friends barbecued and ate up their fourth dinner party mate. They said after arrest, "We had nothing against him personally - we just wanted to see what human meat tasted like."
Remember Sir Anthony Hopkins evilly lick his lips as Jodie Foster shuddered in the monster 1991 hit, "The Silence Of The Lambs". Hannibal Lecter became a household name. He was a cannibal.
Cannibals eat humans for many reasons. But the causes are linked to each other. In many ancient tribes it was considered a custom. During the Second World War, tribals in Papua New Guinea ate up captured Japanese soldiers. It was considered as a victory celebration.
Cannibalism has a sexual dimension too. The love bites during fornication has traces of sexual cannibalism. But many go over the top. That is sexual cannibalism. During the 1920's Americans were confronted with the horrors of Albert Fish who was said to have raped, murdered and eaten a number of children. Fish was a sexual cannibal in the truest sense of the term and claimed to have experienced enormous sexual pleasure when he imagined eating a person or when he actually indulged his fantasies.
Many acts of eating human flesh are to show one's aggression, a sense of domination over the person. So they eat them up. The Papua New Guinea example falls in this category.
Cannibalism is resorted too in times of dire necessity. We have often heard stories of marooned people eating human flesh to survive.
Some other motives may be that the cannibals like the taste of human flesh. Fulfilling nutritional needs, you see. For others it is done for reasons of occult. In Helsinki, Finland in 1999, two men and a teenaged girl were sent to prison for the torture, murder and cannibalism of a twenty-three-year-old man. The three individuals claimed to be Satanists performing a ritualistic killing.
Attempts have been made to give a psychological explanation for cannibalism, but none of the theories put forward have proved to be satisfactory. One theory by Dr. Clancy McKenzie, a psychology professor at Capital University in Washington, D.C. says cannibalism has its roots in childhood trauma. If a child is denied mother's love, it has the urge to eat her/his mother's flesh to get the denied intimacy with the mother. Therein lie the seeds of cannibalism. Others say it is due to a deficiency of some minerals. Some say it is in the genes. But one thing is clear. All cannibals (except the marooned man-eaters) suffer from schizophrenia.
Just two days back a case of cannibalism came to light in Chernovtsi, Ukraine. A group of friends barbecued and ate up their fourth dinner party mate. They said after arrest, "We had nothing against him personally - we just wanted to see what human meat tasted like."
Remember Sir Anthony Hopkins evilly lick his lips as Jodie Foster shuddered in the monster 1991 hit, "The Silence Of The Lambs". Hannibal Lecter became a household name. He was a cannibal.
Cannibals eat humans for many reasons. But the causes are linked to each other. In many ancient tribes it was considered a custom. During the Second World War, tribals in Papua New Guinea ate up captured Japanese soldiers. It was considered as a victory celebration.
Cannibalism has a sexual dimension too. The love bites during fornication has traces of sexual cannibalism. But many go over the top. That is sexual cannibalism. During the 1920's Americans were confronted with the horrors of Albert Fish who was said to have raped, murdered and eaten a number of children. Fish was a sexual cannibal in the truest sense of the term and claimed to have experienced enormous sexual pleasure when he imagined eating a person or when he actually indulged his fantasies.
Many acts of eating human flesh are to show one's aggression, a sense of domination over the person. So they eat them up. The Papua New Guinea example falls in this category.
Cannibalism is resorted too in times of dire necessity. We have often heard stories of marooned people eating human flesh to survive.
Some other motives may be that the cannibals like the taste of human flesh. Fulfilling nutritional needs, you see. For others it is done for reasons of occult. In Helsinki, Finland in 1999, two men and a teenaged girl were sent to prison for the torture, murder and cannibalism of a twenty-three-year-old man. The three individuals claimed to be Satanists performing a ritualistic killing.
Attempts have been made to give a psychological explanation for cannibalism, but none of the theories put forward have proved to be satisfactory. One theory by Dr. Clancy McKenzie, a psychology professor at Capital University in Washington, D.C. says cannibalism has its roots in childhood trauma. If a child is denied mother's love, it has the urge to eat her/his mother's flesh to get the denied intimacy with the mother. Therein lie the seeds of cannibalism. Others say it is due to a deficiency of some minerals. Some say it is in the genes. But one thing is clear. All cannibals (except the marooned man-eaters) suffer from schizophrenia.
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