A mente astrológica 1999

Will she rise again?, 1814, Francisco Goya

❝ Those taken in the bathtub have likewise been carefully positioned. One has the victim draped over the edge of the bath, his head and arms hanging outside, the arms stretched above his head, and the lower part of the torso sitting cross-legged in the tub. This, too, accentuates the chest area, Dahmer’s primary source of of fetishistic excitement. On another picture, the mouth of the victim is open; Dahmer says he opened the mouth himself so that he could place his penis into it.

It is when one comes to the second area of sexual interest – the belly that he had listened to while the victim was alive – that dismemberment begins. There is a photograph of a man who has been opened up, with a cut from the neck right down to the groin, revealing all the internal organs. When asked why he should do this, Dahmer said, “I wanted to see what someone looked like on the inside.” That turned out to be a disingenuous reply, for he subsequently revealed that he would plunge his hands into the intestines and feel them, occasionally still warm to the touch. If there was room, he would get an erection and lower himself on to the open body to have intercourse with the viscera, placing his penis literally within the body and ejaculating among its organs. When it was too cramped in the bathroom to do this, he might pull the intestines out and rub them on his penis, using them as a masturbatory aid. Every time he wanted to take a picture, he had to stop and wash his hands. ❞