Feasting of genitals
Posted: Tue May 22, 2012 9:38 pm
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Please retweet. I am offering my male genitals (full penis, testes, scrotum) as a meal for 100,000 yen . I will prepare and cook as the buyer requests, at his chosen location.
On Sunday, April 13, Tokyo illustrator Mao Sugiyama (who goes by the nickname HC), publicly seasoned and braised his own genitals on a portable gas cartridge burner, and then served them to six eager diners who each paid about $250 for the meal. The genitals had been returned to Sugiyama, frozen and double-bagged in plastic, following sex-change surgery during which they were removed.
Sugiyama had originally offered the meal on Twitter in mid-April to the first person willing to pay 100,000 yen (about $1,250). But after the notoriety that his tweet caused, he organized a public banquet, dubbed Ham Cybele Century Banquet, at the Asagaya Loft event space in the Suginami Ward of Tokyo. Ham Cybele doesnt appear to have any particular significance other than that Sugiyama likes to name things in such a way that their initials are the same as his artist name HC, but century in Japanese is a homophone for the Japanese word for genitals.
The day before the event Sugiyama tweeted, Im starting to thaw them out, and posted this photo (warning: not for the squeamish). A crowd of what appeared in photographs to be at least several dozen diners and onlookers gathered to listen to a piano recital and panel discussion before the dinner.
Although only six servings of the genitals were available, the other diners were served alternate beef- and crocodile-based dishes. The cooking was done by Sugiyama himself, dressed as a chef, under the supervision of a licensed food preparation specialist.
One of the six genital eaters posted a long, detailed blog post on April 14 about the event, including about 20 photographs (the source of our photos here), but the entire post was deleted on May 19 and a new post appeared stating that insufficient consideration had been given to privacy considerations. Since Sugiyama himself linked to and seemed to endorse the blog post, we can only speculate that the blog hosting service or the police objected to the post.
Diners were required to sign a waiver releasing Sugiyama and the event organizers from any liability arising from the consumption of the genitals. Sugiyama stated that before his operation he had been tested to be free of any venereal diseases and had not yet started receiving female hormone therapy. He also added that his genitals had been normally functional and that the pre-severed penis could attain an erect length of 16.1 cm (about 6.3 inches).
Close-up photos of the braised genitals showed a sliced penis shaft with clearly visible corpora cavernosa and urethra, a sliced testicle with the look and texture of sea urchin sushi, and scrotal skin with about 3 mm of pubic hair growth. Rounding out the presentation the chef garnished the genitals with button mushrooms and Italian parsley.
A spokesman for the Suginami police told CalorieLab that they had received many inquires and complaints from concerned citizens, but that they were unable to pursue the matter because there is no law prohibiting cannibalism in Japan. Nevertheless, the spokesman said, Were going to talk to the people at Asagaya Loft and ask them what is going on and why they hosted such an event.
Sugiyama is cheerfully answering questions from curious Twitter members about Ham Cybele, his operation, and especially his new corset, which hes wearing to help form a feminine hourglass shape as his female hormone therapy progresses. He reports that video of the Ham Cybele event was taken and will be available at a later date. He tweets that his sex-reassignment surgery cost him 1 million yen (about $125,000).
The original tweet that started this is reproduced below:
[Please Retweet] I am offering my male genitals (full penis, testes, scrotum) as a meal for 100,000 yen [$1,250]. Im Japanese. The organs were surgically removed at age 22. I was tested to be free of venereal diseases. The organs were of normal function. I was not receiving female hormone treatment. The length at full erection was 16.1 cm [6.3 inches]. First interested buyer will get them, or I will also consider selling to a group. Will prepare and cook as the buyer requests, at his chosen location. If you have questions, please contact me by DM or e-mail.
[For simplicity's sake, we used the male singular pronoun "he" throughout this post.]
Some interesting pictures
Transward
Please retweet. I am offering my male genitals (full penis, testes, scrotum) as a meal for 100,000 yen . I will prepare and cook as the buyer requests, at his chosen location.
On Sunday, April 13, Tokyo illustrator Mao Sugiyama (who goes by the nickname HC), publicly seasoned and braised his own genitals on a portable gas cartridge burner, and then served them to six eager diners who each paid about $250 for the meal. The genitals had been returned to Sugiyama, frozen and double-bagged in plastic, following sex-change surgery during which they were removed.
Sugiyama had originally offered the meal on Twitter in mid-April to the first person willing to pay 100,000 yen (about $1,250). But after the notoriety that his tweet caused, he organized a public banquet, dubbed Ham Cybele Century Banquet, at the Asagaya Loft event space in the Suginami Ward of Tokyo. Ham Cybele doesnt appear to have any particular significance other than that Sugiyama likes to name things in such a way that their initials are the same as his artist name HC, but century in Japanese is a homophone for the Japanese word for genitals.
The day before the event Sugiyama tweeted, Im starting to thaw them out, and posted this photo (warning: not for the squeamish). A crowd of what appeared in photographs to be at least several dozen diners and onlookers gathered to listen to a piano recital and panel discussion before the dinner.
Although only six servings of the genitals were available, the other diners were served alternate beef- and crocodile-based dishes. The cooking was done by Sugiyama himself, dressed as a chef, under the supervision of a licensed food preparation specialist.
One of the six genital eaters posted a long, detailed blog post on April 14 about the event, including about 20 photographs (the source of our photos here), but the entire post was deleted on May 19 and a new post appeared stating that insufficient consideration had been given to privacy considerations. Since Sugiyama himself linked to and seemed to endorse the blog post, we can only speculate that the blog hosting service or the police objected to the post.
Diners were required to sign a waiver releasing Sugiyama and the event organizers from any liability arising from the consumption of the genitals. Sugiyama stated that before his operation he had been tested to be free of any venereal diseases and had not yet started receiving female hormone therapy. He also added that his genitals had been normally functional and that the pre-severed penis could attain an erect length of 16.1 cm (about 6.3 inches).
Close-up photos of the braised genitals showed a sliced penis shaft with clearly visible corpora cavernosa and urethra, a sliced testicle with the look and texture of sea urchin sushi, and scrotal skin with about 3 mm of pubic hair growth. Rounding out the presentation the chef garnished the genitals with button mushrooms and Italian parsley.
A spokesman for the Suginami police told CalorieLab that they had received many inquires and complaints from concerned citizens, but that they were unable to pursue the matter because there is no law prohibiting cannibalism in Japan. Nevertheless, the spokesman said, Were going to talk to the people at Asagaya Loft and ask them what is going on and why they hosted such an event.
Sugiyama is cheerfully answering questions from curious Twitter members about Ham Cybele, his operation, and especially his new corset, which hes wearing to help form a feminine hourglass shape as his female hormone therapy progresses. He reports that video of the Ham Cybele event was taken and will be available at a later date. He tweets that his sex-reassignment surgery cost him 1 million yen (about $125,000).
The original tweet that started this is reproduced below:
[Please Retweet] I am offering my male genitals (full penis, testes, scrotum) as a meal for 100,000 yen [$1,250]. Im Japanese. The organs were surgically removed at age 22. I was tested to be free of venereal diseases. The organs were of normal function. I was not receiving female hormone treatment. The length at full erection was 16.1 cm [6.3 inches]. First interested buyer will get them, or I will also consider selling to a group. Will prepare and cook as the buyer requests, at his chosen location. If you have questions, please contact me by DM or e-mail.
[For simplicity's sake, we used the male singular pronoun "he" throughout this post.]
Some interesting pictures
Transward
I did look at the pictures.