PJ Vogt
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There will actually be another recipe before the end of this.
Okay, so I'm not talking about survival cannibalism, except for that.
The other sort of cannibalism... The thing that I noticed reading more about cannibalism and reading these books by experts about cannibalism is that I have noticed a trend among the academics, which is that...
They don't like talking about murderous cannibalism, like Jeffrey Dahmer-style cannibalism.
In the Bill Shutt book I read, he goes out of his way to say he is not going to talk about, like, your Ed Gein's, like, your serial killers who ate people.
He has a passing reference to the one German guy who consensually ate a person.
Who I have questions for you about.
But he's, like, he almost, like, doesn't want to count them in his...
cannibalism ethnography.
Because they're outliers?
Well, here's what's interesting.
He says it would be disrespectful to the victims, but to me, I'm like, but that's the taboo, isn't it?
Like, that's where you're like, even in walking up to the electric fence, I'm going to step away from the electric fence.
Like, I don't want to think about the part of this that is sort of at the core of it.
Okay, so I want to talk about The German Cannibal.