Armin Meiwes, the cannibal from Rothenburg, contacted Bernd Jürgen Armando Brandes, a Berlin engineer, online. From the beginning it seems that Meiwes' intentions were clear: to taste the meat of his victim. Little by little, their relationship escalated into violence: after severing and eating Brandes's penis, Meiwes ended up stabbing him to death, dismembering and eating him, and videotaped the entire process.
Vorarephilia, abbreviated as vore in many Internet chats, is a sexual practice that consists of eating other people's meat . The word comes from the Latin vorare , 'to devour'; and filia , 'liking for'. These people enjoy the idea of swallowing or being swallowed by someone.
It is a rare paraphilia that only arises in very extreme cases. That of the cannibal from Rothenburg was one of them, since it was the difficult coincidence that there were two people with the same erotic hobby and willing to take their practice to a maximum extreme.
And although it is not common as a real practice, it is very present on the internet and has been in artistic manifestations. A painting like Saturn Devouring a Son , by Goya, is a classic example used as an emblem by fans of vore . Others come from Japanese culture: for example, Cell , an android from the Dragon Ball Z manga that is often represented on the Internet devouring characters from that or other animation series.
