Bernd Brandes was recorded on video in 2001 eating his own penis. Brandes isn’t an auto-fellator, like others who’ve written in, but a man who wanted to be eaten by a cannibal. He found one on the Internet, and allowed this man to cut off his penis and fry it in a pan. Brandes’ penis was overcooked and rather tough, it turns out, but the man who fried Brandes’ penis, Armin Meiwes, killed Brandes anyway and ate other parts of him. Meiwes told a German court last week that eating Brandes was like taking communion.
What do you think? Is Meiwes–who had the presence of mind to videotape himself asking Brandes if he wanted to be killed and eaten before killing and eating him–guilty of murdering his alleged victim, or is he guilty of a lesser crime? And why did the Washington Post not include the bit about the penis...