Consensual snacking
A…what?
Yes, There’s a Safe Way to Have a Cannibalism Fetish.
A…what?
As a fetish educator, I’m so tired of seeing the Armie Hammer allegations used against the BDSM community.
A what educator? The what community?
But most stories and commentary have remained focused on the sensationalism of his supposed cannibalism fetish and have ignored the real issue: that the foundation of true BDSM relationships is consent. We spoke to Jet Setting Jasmine, a master fetish educator, licensed clinical psychotherapist, and co-owner of Royal Fetish Films, to discuss why this is so damaging.
Ah yes consent. As long as you consent it’s fine if this strapping lad starts cutting away bits of you for dinner. I’m guessing that the “cannibals” are men and the dinners are women. Just a hunch.
Here’s what I’ve been seeing people get wrong in the conversation around Armie Hammer and the abuse allegations against him: His alleged cannibalism fetish itself isn’t the problem. The problem is, if the allegations are true, whether he used his power to groom these women into participating in a lifestyle they had truly not consented to.
That’s a lifestyle now? Someone chowing down on your flesh is a lifestyle? And the women who are devoured are “participating” in that “lifestyle”?
A cannibalism fetish, or vorarephilia, is characterized by a person who fantasizes about consuming someone or being consumed. The key word there is “fantasy.” The fetish never goes so far as actually eating or killing someone, of course—that’d be illegal. Just having the conversation around eating someone, and being sexually stimulated by that, is considered a cannibalism fetish.
And it’s fine, because people never – literally never – go from fantasy and talking about it to actually doing it. That would be illegal. Nobody ever does anything illegal. That would be illegal. Never mind the fact that there are many documented cases of people going from fantasizing about illegal act X to performing illegal act X; this is completely different because is that a bottle of steak sauce?
Any form of grooming into a lifestyle without consent is a violation. Consent is the difference between BDSM and non-BSDM encounters. We cannot actually consider an encounter true BDSM if there isn’t consent involved. The minute that a hookup does not have clear consent, it has already fallen out of BDSM and into an inappropriate interaction.
Well yes, that is inappropriate, but it’s too late to do anything about it, because he’s already killed her.
Can these people really be that stupid???
I don’t think I’ve ever seen such a clear-cut use of the Scotsman Fallacy.
Yes. Like half of the population. Being intelligent throws off your intuitions about the intelligence of people in general, sort of like the top end of the Dunning-Kruger curve. But people really are that stupid.
At least half of humanity absolutely can be convinced that men become women by uttering magic words, that children are born evil because a talking snake tricked a woman into eating a magic apple, that water has medicinal memory, that black people are inferior, that white people are evil, that (white) women’s tears are weapons, that everything people do is grouped into communities, or that Trump is a stable genius with the best words.
More like a deathstyle.
Sigh. Not surprising, though; there’s the whole edgy attitude out there that everything and anything is fine, as long as it’s for sex and is (ostensibly) consensual. Once you label something a fetish, it becomes off-limits to criticize it. Bank-robbing? No no, you don’t understand, I rob banks as a kinky thing, because I get off on it! So that means it’s OK!
As far as I know it is not illegal to eat people in the UK. As long as they’re already dead of course and you didn’t kill them. The eating part is fine, I think.
I don’t know whether or not that goes some way to explaining our obesity levels.
I recall having heard about (but have never read) a short story (by Stephen King?) about someone stranded on a desert island, or something like that, and being forced to start eating himself, starting with the less vital bits, moving on to less expendable ones as the story progressed. If this character had been a cannibalism fetishist, would this have been a case of autoerotic voraphlllia?
While eating the dead isn’t illegal in the UK, there is the crime of preventing a proper burial. I suppose one could just remove the prime joints, but imagine the looks from the undertakers when they come for Grandad and find him short of a rump-or-two.
@YNNB
I read it years ago & it’s pretty gruesome, written in the first person as entries in a diary. The story is called “Survivor Type” and is in Stephen King’s collection “Skeleton Crew” (not sure how to italicize & Preview is gone…). According to the Wikipedia page, King said in an interview that it “goes a little bit too far, even for me”. I’ve found that my taste for horror, in books or movies, has declined tremendously – perhaps as I see real life as much more horrific than I used to…
Helicam: first , then whatever you want to italicize, then
Oops, it italicized it! Okay, try this way:
Next you put in what you want to say.
Them you use
Okay, I’m done. Don’t know what the program has against me today.
There is always a Python sketch. The Undertakers:
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x5wthhn
iknklast, it’s not personal, it just obeyed the italics command on the first one and disappeared whatever you did on the second one.
That explains “Moss and the German”, thanks!
I am offended at your regressive phobia against the otherkin carnivore community, Ophelia. As a proud member (spiritually deep down inside) of the Blue-Furred Venusian Dragon Community, I am here with a riposte that cannibalism is a GLORIOUS and delicious thing! As long as the prey are willing to be consumed, of course.
Geez. Identifying as a predatory animal could be a whole new way to beat a murder rap! “While I have great sympathy for the victim and her family, she should have know better than to make contact with an obviously dangerous predator. I submit his Twitter avatar as proof. It might look like an anime caricature, but it’s clearly carnivorous. Note the pointed teeth, and long striped tail. It’s simply in my client’s nature to kill other animals, and he is thus, blameless.”
Makes as much sense as a TIM with an elfish, purple-haired anime girl avatar claiming to be a “lesbian.”
I’m sure there was a case in Germany, approximately 20 years ago, of a man charged with murder whose defence was that his victim consented to being killed and eaten.
Arcadia, one advantage to that defense is that the prosecution can’t put the victim on the stand to refute him.
Yes. Yes, they can be that stupid.
Shit. You’re absolutely right. I’m not kidding at all. I could really see this argument winning in court in the near future, maybe four or five years from now.
@iknklast, my recollection is that he produced communication between them to that effect. Still think it’s a crime though, myself.