{"id":430,"date":"2004-01-06T02:05:02","date_gmt":"2004-01-06T07:05:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2004\/01\/meiwes_cannibalism_trial\/"},"modified":"2004-01-06T02:05:02","modified_gmt":"2004-01-06T07:05:02","slug":"meiwes_cannibalism_trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2004\/01\/meiwes_cannibalism_trial\/","title":{"rendered":"Meiwes Cannibalism Trial"},"content":{"rendered":"

I hadn’t seen much on the German cannibalism trial lately. I’m not sure if they took off for some holiday cheer or if I just haven’t been looking closely enough. Anyway, the trial is still in progress<\/a>. From recent testimony I learn that in corners of the Internet where I’ve never ventured, there’s some nifty cannibalism forums:<\/p>\n

Inspector Isolde Stock said that Mr Meiwes’ email correspondence with members of “cannibal forums” would fill two lorries if it were printed out.
\n“We downloaded over 3,000 pictures of gay and heterosexual sex, torture scenes and violence from Meiwes’s computer and two PCs,” she said.
\n. . .
\nMr Meiwes estimates that there are at least 800 active participants in cannibal forums, and says he was in contact with at least 400 of them. Experts say the real number is probably much higher.
\n“There are several hundred people with cannibalistic tendencies in Germany alone, and many thousands around the world,” said Rudolf Egg, a criminologist in the German central criminal service.
\nOnly a tiny proportion of those entering cannibal chat-rooms were willing to follow through and meet in real life.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That’s probably good. Because if all of them followed through and engaged in their cannibalism, there wouldn’t be many people left to chat with.
\nJust what does one share in a cannibalism forum anyway? Recipes?
\nIn this case it seems to have been fantasies:<\/p>\n

The judge read out selections of Mr Meiwes’ email conversations with J\ufffdrg, another correspondent, describing their sexual and cannibalistic fantasies.
\n“Did you kill any young men over the holidays?” J\ufffdrg asked in January last year.
\n“It was the only thing I didn’t do over the holidays. Do you think I have slipped out, that I want to kill a young man and eat him?” Mr Meiwes replied.
\n“No, there is nothing sexier than to be killed like a pig,” replied J\ufffdrg.
\nTo satisfy another correspondent, whose fantasy was to be killed and eaten by a woman, Mr Meiwes set up a new email account and pretended to be a woman.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That’s the Internet for you. If you can’t trust someone in a cannibalism forum, just who can you trust these days?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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