Monday

🍫 human body parts inside chocolate?:

when interrogating jeffrey dahmer, detective patrick kennedy spoke to him about his work at the ambrosia chocolate company:

P.K: “jeff, i have here a report from your employer at the chocolate factory. it says that they gave you notice of termination. they were also wondering if you placed anything other than the prescribed ingredients into the batches of confections you were mixing.”

**dahmer sat back quickly in surprise**

Jeffrey Dahmer’s Paraphilias

Splanchnophilia-a pattern of erotic arousal to the visual imagery of the glistening surface of organs. When Jeffrey Dahmer was in high school, he went on a field trip with his class to the natural history museum. He recalled seeing a corpse in the anatomical position. It had been cut from head to torso, the organs on display. It fascinated him so much that he stood there staring at it, becoming so engrossed with his discovery, that he lost the rest of his class. He found it erotic and it was the glistening of the organs that he became aroused by. A number of common fetishes in which men find ‘glistening’ erotic are silk, nylon, and latex. 

Necrophilia-a pattern of erotic arousal to corpses. This paraphilia is what Dahmer’s defense attorneys said was the reason behind his possible legal insanity. He was diagnosed with having this paraphilia by several psychiatrists during his evaluation before his trial. Dr. Wayne Myers said that “Sexual perversion is a way of mastering earlier emotional trauma through scenarios that add sexual pleasures to the wound. It gives you solace, making you feel you have some control over the pain.” According to Dr. Park Dietz, Dahmer’s first preference for a sexual partner was a “living partner who gave him total license and had no time constraints.” The second would have been a docile sex zombie, the third would have been a drugged victim, and his last choice was a corpse.

Frotteurism-a pattern of sexual arousal from rubbing against bodies-alive or dead. Dahmer was known to rub the unconscious or dead bodies of the men that he lured to his apartment. During his conversation with psychiatrists prior to his trial, Jeffrey often referred to this as “light sex”.

Partialism-a pattern of sexual arousal to specific parts of the body. Jeff was attracted to very specific parts of the male anatomy, in particular biceps, hairless chests, and viscera. He would almost always choose his victims based on their outward appearance. Of the parts he tried to cannibalize, a bicep was one of the first pieces he tried.

Necrophagia-a pattern of erotic arousal to consuming human flesh. During Dahmer’s psychological evaluation with psychiatrist, Dr. Judith Becker prior to his trial, he explained his venture into cannibalism. On the stand, Becker later related that he “tried tasting the flesh and the heart. He bought a meat tenderizer, tenderized the heart, and ate it and the muscle meat. It gave him a sexual thrill while eating it. He felt that the man was a part of him and he internalized him. He reported having an erection while eating it.”