Japanese Chef,cooks own genitals,serves it.

GRENDEL · Jun 1, 2012

What a dick.

TheChosenOne · Jun 1, 2012

What. The. ****!!!!!!

vlaurelio · Jun 1, 2012

that guy had balls

Rockets2K · Jun 1, 2012

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I am not going to click on the link but I really wonder what is the psychology behind someone doing this to themselves and also the paying to eat it? I have heard there are body dysfunctions but where people hate parts of their own body so much they amputate limbs. I am wondering if that is the case with Mao Sugiyama.

As for the people who paid to eat him was it just part of the thrill, the ultimate Bizarre Food, be avante garde as part of an extreme performance art, or that they actually wanted to be cannibals?
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I actually read that....disturbing, even for Tokyo.

He/she/it styles him/her/itself as asexual and also burned off his/her/it's nipples off with caustic lye to achieve a sexless state. The selling of the opportunity to eat them was done for the money and exposure of course....

As for the customer's motives for eating

The five genital eaters comprised a 32-year-old male manga artist (there for “research”), a 30-year-old white-collar couple (who were “curious”), an attractive 22-year-old woman (who wondered how it would feel), and 29-year-old event planner Shigenobu Matsuzawa, who tweeted before the event, “It’s a once in a lifetime chance, so I decided on the spur of the moment to do it.”
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rrj_gamz · Jun 1, 2012

They ate his nuts! wtf??

KingCheetah · Jun 1, 2012

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magnetik · Jun 1, 2012

dafuq? no bath salts involved? we are in the end of days when you can gather up a group of people and partake in sharing of balls and gravy.. voluntarily.

krnxsnoopy · Jun 1, 2012

Takes Bu ka ke to a whole nother level.

dsnow23 · Jun 1, 2012

Officially the weirdest week in news, ever.

Hippieloser · Jun 1, 2012

The Year of the Cannibal.

napalm06 · Jun 1, 2012

This makes me sick and acutely painful all at one time.

RedRedemption · Jun 1, 2012

I hate people.

SwoLy-D · Jun 1, 2012

Yeeee-ikes. My PP shriveled up just reading that.

plutoblue11 · Jun 1, 2012

RedRedemption said: ↑

I hate people.
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Even though, this is a little on the "f#cking weirdo" side, there are much more logical reasons for hating people. At least, he isn't being an a##hole about it.

plutoblue11 · Jun 1, 2012

... The genitals had been returned to the asexual Sugiyama, frozen and double-bagged in plastic, following elective genital removal surgery on his 22nd birthday on March 31.

After initially considering eating them himself, Sugiyama 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 A” event space in the Suginami Ward of Tokyo. “Century” in Japanese is a homophone for the Japanese word for “genitals”; “Ham Cybele” refers to the Anatolian mother goddess, prefixed with an appropriate word for tough meat to create a phrase whose initials match Sugiyama’s artist name of HC.

The day before the event Sugiyama tweeted, “I’m starting to thaw them out,” and posted this photo (warning: not for the squeamish). On the day of the event a crowd of about 70 mostly twenty-somethings gathered, five to a table, to listen to a piano recital and panel discussion before the dinner.

Although only five 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.

The five genital eaters comprised a 32-year-old male manga artist (there for “research”), a 30-year-old white-collar couple (who were “curious”), an attractive 22-year-old woman (who wondered how it would feel), and 29-year-old event planner Shigenobu Matsuzawa, who tweeted before the event, “It’s a once in a lifetime chance, so I decided on the spur of the moment to do it.” Matsuzawa posted a detailed blog post on April 14 after the banquet, including about 20 photographs (the source of our photos here). He boasted on Twitter that he was getting twice the traffic he’d gotten when his blog was once profiled on prime-time Japanese television. But on May 19 he suddenly deleted the post and replaced it with a new post explaining that the removal was due to privacy considerations. Sugiyama himself had linked to and seemed to endorse the blog 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 (although during the panel discussion he admitted that he had gone on a one-month sex binge with anonymous internet partners just to make sure he wouldn’t regret the operation). He stated that he had not yet started receiving female hormone therapy the time of the operation. He also added 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.

Sugiyama told the tense but giggly crowd during the pre-dinner interview that he would be contributing his genital recipes to the Japanese recipe website Cookpad.com. (Note: A photo from Sugiyama’s Twitter stream of two large, meaty balls together on a plate has been misidentified by some websites as his testicles. They are actually beef steak cubes that Sugiyama used to develop his recipe before the real event.)

Sugiyama had also intended to include his nipples on the menu, but his attempt to burn them off with sodium hydroxide did not result in anything usable.

What was the verdict by the eaters? According to the deleted blog post by Matsuzawa, the hard, rubbery penis root almost bent his fork, and he spit it out after a few chews. The only taste was of the red wine that it had been pre-stewed in. The scrotum was surprisingly even harder and more rubbery than the penis, but tasteless. (Matsuzawa didn’t mention the pubic hair.) The testicles were hard on the outside, soft and glutinous in the middle, with a fishy or gamey taste. One of Matsuzawa’s friends in attendance asked for a piece of the penis and ate it, but after the event became distraught and expressed regret that he had lost his common sense in the heat of the moment.

A commenter below with culinary expertise recommends that tough organ meats be soaked in milk, then cooked sous vide at 50 degrees Celsius for 8 hours in a vacuum; they’ll become spoon-soft, he says. And food writer and chef J. Kenji Lopez-Alt of Serious Eats in an e-mail to CalorieLab wrote, “The first thought that entered my mind when I read your article was the chef didn’t cook it right. What a waste of a perfectly good penis! Penis is pretty tough and needs to be slow cooked, either sous-vide, or in a braise. Testicles need to be cleaned, washed, membrane removed, then very gently cooked so they retain their soft, creamy texture. Check out some of Chichi Wang’s ‘Nasty Bits‘ columns on Serious Eats. She cooks both testicles and penis.”

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. (Cf. “In the United States, there are no laws against cannibalism per se,” Cornell University Legal Information Institute, via Grub Street.) Nevertheless, the spokesman said, “We’re going to talk to the people at Asagaya Loft A and ask them what is going on and why they hosted such an event.”

According to a June 1 report on the Japanese tabloid website Zakzak, at the behest of the Suginami police the Suginami health department conducted an on-site inspection of Asagaya Loft A. Although the venue is primarily used for live music, it also has a license for food service. The proprietor explained to the health inspectors that the venue was rented for the purpose of putting on a show, that the event was private and closed to the general public, and that none of the venue’s food preparation equipment, utensils or kitchen facilities were used. The health department issued a warning to the venue’s proprietor not to allow food service activities to be done outside the kitchen area in the future. In addition, the health department is considering drafting administrative guidance on the issue.

Zakzak also spoke to former public prosecutor Masaru Wakasa, who said that the event might also have violated obscenity laws if the genitals, despite their severed state, were still clearly recognizable as genitals to the attendees. Kyodo News wire service jumped in with a short article about the event on June 1, quoting a Suginami Ward official that they do not permit this sort of thing and are looking into it in consultation with the police. Asahi Shinbun likewise published a short item early June 2 quoting Suginami Mayor Tanaka as calling the event “deplorable.” It looks like L’Affair Sugiyama is finally hitting the media in Japan. Sugiyama himself is sounding a little bit stressed out on Twitter.

Sugiyama has not posted any photos of his post-operation crotch area, but in a tweet he responded to a question by saying that surgeons created a urethra opening for urination in front of his anus at the lowest spot of his crotch, not in the front as you might expect. Looking at a side view illustration of the male reproductive tract, this looks like a logical exit point to minimize the length of the urethra, and perhaps it’s the best position for using a sit-down toilet.

Sugiyama is cheerfully answering questions from curious Twitter members about Ham Cybele, his operation, and especially his new corset, which he’s wearing to help maintain an androgynous shape as his female hormone therapy progresses (the hormones are for “health purposes”). He tweets that his surgery cost him 1 million yen (about $12,500), about what he received from the event. He reports that video of the Ham Cybele event was taken and that it and a written “Ham Cybele Official Report” will be available at a later date. The Suginami police have asked him to come in on June 3 for an interview, but he says that he has not retained or consulted with an attorney.

On his Twitter stream and personal website Sugiyama affects an etherial, artistic persona, and considers the shedding of sexual paraphernalia a step towards a higher plane of existence. Ironically, photos of the event and tweets to him afterwards suggest that getting his sex organs removed made him into something of a chick magnet. Attractive 20-something Japanese women can’t seem to get enough of him.
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Reaction and backstory.

Raven · Jun 1, 2012

Let's be honest, no one is surprised this happened in Japan. No one.

RKREBORN · Jun 1, 2012

Thats not a way to get ahead in life...

Jimes · Jun 1, 2012

vlaurelio said: ↑

that guy had balls
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It had been a while since I really laughed out loud at a post.

LCII · Jun 1, 2012

according to a friend, there are underground places in japan where you can eat, kill, and have sex with the animal you want to eat.

James Gabriel · Jun 1, 2012

China as well?

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"Customs officials in South Korea have made a gruesome find: smuggled capsules... filled with powdered human baby flesh."

"The grim trade is being run from China where corrupt medical staff are said to be tipping off medical companies when babies are aborted or delivered still-born."

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