There are, though, as we shall see by examining some cases, some primary explanations for it, self-justifications that lie deep within the subconscious of the cannibal. The truth is that there is no definable type of criminal who might practise cannibalism. There was none, despite the programme-makers’ view that there was. But now it’s a subject that fascinates as well as horrifies.Ī few years ago in a TV series on cannibalism, one programme became so excited about people eating people that it lumped all the most sensational cases together, including Arthur Shawcross, the American serial killer who probably wasn’t a cannibal anyway, and tried to find common ground between them. It is still the ultimate form of sexual sadism – something we all instinctively shrink from. What must it be like to eat another person? Cannibalism, once a taboo too far for most people to discuss, became a subject of curiosity. ![]() ![]() Something happened when the loathsome character of Hannibal Lecter first crossed our cinema screens.
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