Want some? Tastes like yum!
The eating of one's own flesh... I first came across the term over 15 years ago when reading an issue of Dark Side magazine, which was a special edition, all about the infamous history of the "Video Nasties": the films banned in the UK in the 1980's. The word was used in a review of Joe D'Amato's gut-rencher, "The Antropophagus". The reviewer told us at the end of of his article that the protagonist finally succums to his his own flesh-lust and begins to devour himself "in an act of autoanthropophagism."
Is that Harry Potter?
Skip ahead to today, when I read of a man who ate his own gonads, and took the pictures to document it, for the worlds viewing pleasure. A "Heat-wave" in Ireland this weekend... might chance a BBQ...
[ link: http://www.bestgore.com/extreme... : Venereal Gore NSFW etc.]
I can't say I'm too shocked, I do afterall, like to bite my own finger nails... but now... Maestro! Some music, if you please. To help the medicine go down, two choice cuts of ear-throbbers for you. "Balls" [all you need are, balls!] by Sparks (does what it sez in the tin) and "Mein Teil" by Rammstein (which was inspired by the famous German cannibalism case).
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I eat my own shit, but that's as far as I'll go.
That's next weeks topic. "Scat Man's World"
Well, at least you can't catch any diseases from eating your own flesh that you don't already have (unlike the Kuru epidemic, Papau New Guinea, 1960s)
And since autoanthrophagy is by definition bound to be slimming, there is room for a diet book and accompanying video. The public would gobble it up. Of course it would need a catchy name. Any ideas?
PS: moral and ethical question: if you get a liver transplant, and you eat that, is that still autoanthrophagy?
"Well, at least you can't catch any diseases..."
That doesn't sit well with me. I can't think of any specific cases yet but I'm sure there must be something you can catch from eating part of yourself. Perhaps consuming a local infection makes it go systematic, but then again, that's really not an ideal case. I'll leave it for the doctors to ponder over.
If you were to use it for slimming you would have to hide the fact that it's high in fat. I think your best bet would be to go for the Green angle. No, I don't mean gangrene, I mean recycling. "Ecoslim" or "SAC" "Self Applicable Composting". The SAC ties nicely in with the ball eating.
Taglines could be: "Cut the fat, by cutting the fat". Or maybe the obvious one: "You are what you eat".
Re: the liver eating, see my post: [ Steve Jobs meets Dr. Lector ]
You might find this an interesting conundrum http://bitsandpieces.us/2011/05/28/interesting-question/
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