 This time it’s a Yorkshireman who allegedly murdered a man
and cooked part of his corpse.
The naked body of Damian Oldfield, 33, was found in a house following remarks
the suspect made at a local takeout restaurant.
Police said part of Oldfield's right leg had been cut
out and pieces of diced human meat were discovered in a pot on the stove.
Anthony Francis Morley, 35, is in jail awaiting trial.
Yorkshire police are asking the gay community for help,
which is like asking Jack the Ripper for shaving tips, because so far this
millennium there have been three other cases of gay cannibalism, two in Germany
and one last year in Mexico.
Cannibalism is described as a fetish, but it’s difficult to
see how a mutual arrangement could be sustained over a long period of time, at
least without access to top flight health insurance for the... er... What would you
call the participants in such a relationship? Sub and dom could apply; master
and slave doesn’t seems right. Chef and cuisine probably fits best. A cannibal’s accomplice could be called a condiment.
Some people that claim to be cannibals have admitted to feeling a sense of
euphoria and/or intense sexual stimulation when consuming human flesh. The
experience was believed to cause an out-of-body-experience causing effects
comparable to taking mescaline.
A US study in 2002 found that people were more likely to eat
someone they found attractive. (I presume this means they were more likely to consider eating someone, otherwise we
would have heard a lot more about this study.) So that little hottie really does look good
enough to eat.
There are two types of cannibalism: exo and endo.
Exocannibalism is where your ‘tribe’ feeds on members of another. Endo is where
you eat members of your own tribe, for spiritual reasons: granny lives on in your
memory and in your bowels.
Gay cannibalism would seem to fall into the latter category,
gay men are literally eating themselves. It is the ultimate form of narcissism,
the last word in male bonding. Moving through the stages of a relationship –
acquaintance, friend, lover – it seems a simple step, in a mind unmoored from
social convention, to add ‘dinner’ to that list.
Cannibalism is a good way of supplementing protein in areas where they may not
be a large supply of local game (the PNG highlands for example). Not that
there would be much nutritional value in many of the half-starved young men you
see out clubbing, their jaws champing on air as they digest the only solid food
many of them had that day: a couple of pills. Perhaps, like Hansel and Gretel,
they should be taken away for plumping up and a detox?
So the next time a man’s cannibalised in your neck of the woods, and if you’re
a gay male, don’t be surprised if the police come knocking on your door. They’re
just following precedent. And the next time you're asked out on a date, be careful: it may be
a dinner date he’s after.
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