Chef serve up his own...

I just have no words. For either the chef or the diners...Oh my. I'm queasy upon reading this. (Also, there's photos at the source)

Chef Serves up his own genitals.

Damn, that's a guy dedicated to his craft. A little too dedicated. :/

I read a story years ago about a guy who cut off his own penis and through it at police. I've often heard of weapons being described as "being better than using your bare hands". That would be an instance of a weapon worse than using your bare hands....

This is how I feel, too. I don't think I could eat it, but I think it's cool that Sugiyama felt comfortable making it public, and hopefully the cost of the meal was able to cover some of the expenses for the surgery.

I think it's douchey that even after Sugiyama has said they don't identify as any gender, Huffington Post continues to use gendered pronouns.

I don't know if it's because I was vege for so long or what, but now that I'm eating meat again I just can't get worked up over what part of an animal I'm eating. If I'm comfortable eating a pig's ass, why wouldn't I be comfortable eating it's penis?

I think human is where I might draw the line, though.

"They" is a plural pronoun, the word that you wanted is "it" (or if that is dehumanizing, the word that you wanted doesn't exist).

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As to the original article, First, I support this person's right to domain over his own body, however I would hope that his psychological well-being was evaluated before such a drastic surgery was undertaken. Second, it is pretty disgusting to pay large amounts of money to eat human flesh, but whatever. Third, I'm sure this is highly illegal and I hope this person doesn't get arrested.

$1250 for your manhood? Now what for the rest of your life?

Actually, there are lots of appropriate words. You might be surprised to find that the English language has a lot of words which exist, even if you don't personally know about them. 'E, zher, zir, mer and zhim are all examples of gender neutral pronouns, but since I wasn't able to ask this particular person about what they prefer, the singular 'they' seemed the most appropriate (thanks, Manko).

Since it's already been stated that the chef was having the surgery because they didn't want a penis, I doubt they see it as a great loss of 'manhood'. I don't think the only reason the chef had the surgery was to make money.

...hood.

The burning question is...did they leave a tip?

They wouldn't have the balls to shaft him like that.

this story and some of the comments have suddenly made me feel a bit lightheaded.

do we really want to condone this as a way of making money? suppose i want to get some cash fast to visit my dying grandmother in hawaii....should i chop off my ear and serve it up to my neighbors if they are crazy enough to want to eat me?

I kind of agree with Manko and Otoki's take on the chef's actions, actually. But I wonder about the jokers who paid to eat the guy's junk. What the fuck was going through their minds?

Some folks will do anything for a fresh experience.

(meant to reply to Manko)

so basically you are ok with cannibalism as long as both parties are consensual. thats a bit extreme, dont you think?

And how do you know he wasnt trying to make money? does it say that in the article?

im not saying its as bad as rape. thats not my point. but i do find it very very disturbing. maybe because i was brought up thinking that eating people is wrong, unless maybe its a life or death situation, like the plot of the movie "Alive".

This just strikes me as a publicity stunt and very crass. Plus what if the people who ate the meal start thinking "hmm that was really exciting and delicious. we should offer money to desperately poor people so we can eat more human body parts!"

Yeah, you'd be hard-pressed to erect an excuse that wasn't hard to swallow.

Oh, come on now. I share your revulsion, but do you really think this guy had his dick and balls chopped off purely for publicity? I can't believe that anyone is that desperate for 15 minutes of fame.

Also, one has to wonder...

Yeah I guess if it's part of getting a sex change,but still.