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Man Serves Rocky Mountain Oysters, His Own!

  • Spence Cooper
  • May 28, 2012

CalorieLab.com, a website offering health, nutritional and fitness news, featured a bizarre story this month about a self-described asexual in Tokyo who cooked and served his own genitals at a banquet.

Mao Sugiyama, an illustrator by occupation, desires to be asexual, neither male nor female, and aspires to be devoid of any sexual features.

Following elective genital removal surgery on his 22nd birthday, Sugiyama had his genitals returned to him frozen and double-bagged in plastic.

After initially considering eating them himself, Sugiyama decided to offer his genitals on Twitter in mid-April to the first person willing to pay 100,000 yen (about $1,250).

The original tweet that started this is reproduced below:

“I am offering my male genitals (full penis, testes, scrotum) as a meal for 100,000 yen [$1,250]. I’m 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.”

Sugiyama seasoned and braised his genitals on a portable gas cartridge burner, and then served them to five diners who each paid about $250 for the meal (a sixth was a no-show).

According to CalorieLab, the five curious diners were comprised of a 32-year-old male manga artist, a 30-year-old white-collar couple, an attractive 22-year-old woman (who wondered how it would feel), and 29-year-old event planner 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”

Diners were required to sign a waiver releasing Sugiyama and the event organizers from any liability arising from the consumption of the genitals.

CalorieLab describes the close-up photos of the braised genitals showing 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.”

The Taste?

According to one diner, Matsuzawa, the 29-year-old event planner, he spit out the hard, rubbery penis after a few chews, claiming the only taste was that of the red wine that it had been pre-stewed in.

The scrotum was even harder and more rubbery than the penis, but tasteless. The testicles were hard on the outside, soft and glutinous in the middle, with a fishy or gamey taste.

Sugiyama claimed he would contribute his genital recipes to the Japanese recipe website Cookpad.com.

Modern Cannibalism

Man Serves Rocky Mountain Oysters, His Own!One could speculate, I suppose, that for Sugiyama, who has proclaimed publicly a desire to be asexual, consuming his own genitals may have amounted to a Freudian symbolic act of the permanent destruction of his biologically assigned male sexual identity.

But then Sugiyama was suddenly seized by a free market capitalistic urge to sell his genitals for a profit, and serve them as a delicacy at a ceremonial banquet.

For the five diners who each paid $250 to eat Sugiyama’s genitals as a meal, this amounts to the contemporary practice of cannibalism in my book.

Some in Japan seem to have a fixation on cannibalism, not to mention a recent anomaly in Miami.

At Cannibalistic Sushi in Tokyo, an edible life-like human body is served on a gurney and stuffed with sushi shaped to resemble human organs, along with a red blood sauce embedded in the skin to resemble realistic bleeding.

According to author Bruce M. Knauft, cannibalism was widespread in the past among humans in many parts of the world, continuing into the 19th century in some isolated South Pacific cultures.

Author Peggy Reeves Sanday claims Fiji was once known as the “Cannibal Isles”. Today, the Korowai, also called the Kolufo, in southeastern Papua eat human flesh as a cultural practice.

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