#anthropophagy

[cold-desires]

I'd like to bite into your trachea and slowly crush it as warm blood fills my mouth; taking out a huge chunk and savoring your taste as you attempt to scream.

[canine-entertainment]

Coining a term!!

Anthromanducophilia (long word, I know...)

This is a paraphilia where you find pleasure in eating human flesh as a nonhuman. This is exclusively for nonhumans, and this is an anti-contact term!

It doesn't have to be explicitly sexual pleasure. It can be whatever type of pleasure you feel towards eating it.

Anthro - human

Manduco - Latin for "eat" or "consume"

Philia - Greek for "love," "fondness," or "affinity"

I'm making this term because anthropophagy doesn't feel right. It's too connected to human cannibalism even if some beings say it's for any organism that eats humans.

I hope this is not against any rules (⁠￣⁠⁠▽⁠￣⁠;⁠)

[saintalwyn]

My teeth around your throat is as close to heaven as either of us will ever get

[rottenddove]

in ancient wizarding society, when a wizard died, they ate him, believing that he would be receiving some of his magical core. so voldemort already gave harry some wizards to eat without him knowing

[richardraawaarr]

my minuscule amount of contribution to the fandom . sighh save me

[we-are-making-it-up-as-we-go]

I got a 30 cum laude (=maximun grade ever, for my american friends) on a bioethics paper about the ethics of cannibalism and in particular, lab-grown human meat!!! Thank you Hannibal Lecter <3

[alethianightsong]

"Pentheus Pursued by the Maenads" or Travis pursued by the Yellowjackets

The Wilderness is Dionysus in his most primal form and when the girls ate Jackie while imagining themselves at a Greek feast, it was like them becoming possessed by the Wilderness and becoming its maenads. When they haunt Nat, it's like they become possessed again and go into an ecstatic frenzy. The maenad parallel becomes even more blatant when they get high on shroom stew and try to start an orgy with Travis which quickly flips into them hunting him while hallucinating a stag. Mythically, the maenads would work themselves up into a heightened state where they didn't recognize their own minds then partake in dances, orgies, and ritualistic dismembering of animals. The Yellowjackets were frenzied, insane, and become something else during their hunts. When they're snapped out of it, they legit are shocked that they almost killed Travis. There's at least two Greek myths where Dionysus causes young women to go insane only to come to after killing a loved one.

[salvadorbonaparte]

Why is "anthropophagy" considered a term that's no longer to be used? I wasn't aware of any issues with it (but that's because I don't know about this particular topic)

I'm sorry I fear my post was a bit unclear. I meant the term cannibalism was the problematic one. I'm going to use the term in this answer because otherwise it gets confusing. Also, nowadays cannibalism can be used for animals eating their own while anthropophagy is specifically for humans eating humans. So having two different terms is actually kinda practical. But it is problematic. And I wish we had a good alternative for it.

Cannibalism shares an etymology with Caribbean.

The word cannibalism exists because Christopher Columbus (and others who came with and after him) accused indigenous Caribbean people of eating humans.

In the (so-called) West, cannibalism is mostly taboo. It's a bit more complicated than that (which I had to explore in my essay) but generally you don't do it unless you have to for survival. Accusing others of cannibalism is then ideological because it's going "these people are uncivilized monsters who break this big universal taboo!"

Many of these accusations are unfounded, just like with the whole blood libel thing (medieval accusations of Jews using human blood to make matzah).

Some of them aren't. Because there are some cultures around the world who actually practice cannibalism. It's ritual cannibalism, including funeral rites or psychological warfare. In those cultures, it's simply not a taboo as long as it's done in accordance with these rituals.

We don't really know if different Caribbean people practiced cannibalism. Because of the whole genocide and colonialism and the way that many sources of the time are unreliable as hell. I saw an article recently claiming there's some new skeletal evidence for cannibalism. It's actually irrelevant though because the main issue is that cannibalism was used as an excuse to dehumanize these people and justify their death.

I found it inappropriate to use in an essay specifically examining monsters and alterity in the crusades and crusader cannibalism because 1) aforementioned reasons 2) the term cannibalism didn't even exist yet because no Europeans had colonized the Americas yet