Cannibalism

I’ve noticed a lot of neurodivergent people who share a special interest in cannibalism. I love that for us. So here are just a few things I’d like to say about and vaguely related to cannibalism.

-the kind which interests me the most (and which one could argue isn’t actually cannibalism) is the kind which occurred between early humans and Neanderthals. Considering we also interbred with Neanderthals, I find it unsurprising that humans have a tendency to equate sexual desire with hunger and sex with devouring (although I know a lot of this is just because of the heavy involvement of the mouth in both eating and sex). Very fun and fascinating stuff. When you consider that study which suggested that autistic people might have stronger Neanderthal gene expression than the average human, it gets even more interesting, and makes me wonder how that might affect autistic/allistic relations. If it does at all. Unlikely, I suppose, but I’m a fantasy writer so I spend a lot of time imagining unlikely nonsense.

-I love land-based meat in theory more than I do in practice. It always looks and smells so much more delicious than it actually tastes—there’s always a weird aftertaste to it, pretty much no matter what, bacon being one of the very few consistent exceptions. But I can’t help but imagine that human meat would be the perfect meat. No bad aftertaste, just everything you could ever wish a meat would be. I have no data to back this up. But I have heard it’s sweet.

-As long as you’re not killing people or violating their wishes to do so, I don’t see how you can rationalize there being anything ethically wrong with eating human meat. You’d want to avoid the brain and the possibility of contracting a prion disease, of course (perhaps the source of our general aversion to the practice?). But that’s not really a matter of ethics, just health and practicality.

-If I had the opportunity to legally eat one and only one person, I’d cook and serve the meat like kalua pig. I think that would be ideal.