Gay cannibalism
Victim of cannibal agreed to be eaten
To the family next door, Armin Meiwes seemed the perfect neighbour. He mowed their lawn, repaired their car and even invited them curved for dinner.
Other residents in the small German town of Rotenburg also believed there was nothing odd about the 42-year-old laptop expert, whose light burned late into the nighttime inside his creaking mansion. Yesterday, however, Meiwes appeared in court charged with killing - and then frying and eating - another man.
In one of the most extraordinary trials in German criminal history, the self-confessed cannibal admitted that he had met a 43-year-old Berlin engineer, Bernd Brandes, after advertising on the internet, and had chopped him up and eaten him.
It was, he said, something he had wanted to perform for a long age. "I always had the fantasy and in the end I fulfilled it," Meiwes told the court on the first evening of his trial for murder in the nearby city of Kassel.
Yesterday German prosecutors described how Meiwes had fantasised about killing and devouring someone, including his classmates, from the age of eight.
The craving grew stronger after the death of his mother in 1999, prosecutor Marcus
By Caleb Crain. Originally published in American Literature 66.1 (March 1994): 25–53.
In 1816, off the coast of Africa, the French frigate La Méduse, through the gross incompetence of its captain, was wrecked and sunk. The captain deserted the ship early, rowing his family away in a precious and nearly empty lifeboat. To rescue themselves, the crew and passengers lashed together a raft from lumber and twine pried from the sinking ship and its rigging. One hundred forty-nine people boarded the raft. Twelve days later, only fifteen survivors were picked up by the passing vessel Argus.
In its night, the wreck of the Medusa was infamous. It was a great scandal to the prestige of the newly restored French monarchy. The cowardice of the captain, who simply fled, and of the ship’s officers, who carve loose the raft instead of towing it from the lifeboats as they had promised to those who boarded it, outraged the public. But it was the survivors’ cannibalism that inflamed the widespread imagination. Desperate from starvation, the survivors resorted to eating the bodies of the men on board who had already died from exposure. In a bestselling memoir, two survivo
Forbidden Pleasures: Queerness and Cannibalism in Film and Television
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Hadley, Kristen M. July 2023.
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In this episode of Beers with Queers, hosts Jordy and Brad talk about the recent resolution of the tragic murders of Julie Williams and Lollie Winans, a case that remained unsolved for nearly 30 years. They indicate on the emotional impact of the case, the details surrounding the murders, and the recent breakthrough in DNA evidence that led to the identification of the killer, Walter Leo Jackson Sr. Despite the closure for the families, questions remain about the investigation and the nature of the crimes.
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