Bernd-Jurgen Brandes, an engineer from Berlin, was willingly killed so that he could be eaten by computer technician Armin Meiwes.

Armin Meiwes claimed his fantasy of eating a person came from horror films. He stated his desire to eat a person developed in his adolescence when he felt ‘very lonesome.’

In 2001 Meiwes posted an advertisement to the then-active website ‘The Cannibal Cafe,’ a forum for people with a cannibalism fetish stating he was "looking for a normally-built 18- to 25-year-old to be slaughtered and then consumed." Many people responded but then backed out; Meiwes did not force them to do anything against their will. Brandes responded and the pair met.

After meeting Brandes and Meiwes went to Meiwes’ home where they filmed Meiwes cutting off Brandes’ penis (with his agreement), it being fried with salt, pepper and garlic and the two men attempting to eat it together. Brandes swallowed 20 sleeping pills and a bottle of cough syrup. Meiwes then ran Brandes a bath and went to read a Star Trek book, checking on the victim every 15 minutes. When Brandes eventually lost consciousness, Meiwes stabbed him in the throat, hung him from a meat hoot and dismembered and ate the corpse, storing body parts in his freezer and consuming up to 20kg of flesh.

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You may remember Armin Meiwes (pronounced like the Sinatra song “I did it Meiwes”). Meiwes was a German computer technician who was into “vorephilia” (sexual attraction to eating, or being eaten by, another human). He advertised in 2001 on a fetish website called The Cannibal Café for “a well-built 18 to 30-year-old to be…

He’s just like, really interesting, ya know?

The fact that he had a voluntary victim is really interesting. Like he literally gave no shits and just put out an online ad that said “looking for a well-built 18- to 30-year-old to be slaughtered and then consumed” like he was just like “yup just come on over and I’ll kill and eat you.” and then someone ACTUALLY ANSWERED IT. Actually tons of people answered but then backed out, and Meiwes never forced them to do anything they weren’t comfortable with.

Like damn, a cannibal who asks for consent. Ain’t that even just a little fascinating? 

And don’t even get me started on his victim, Brandes. That dude was weird. He was like “nah, nah, you need to bite my penis off plz. Just bite it off” Weirdest blowjob fetish ever. And then Brandes tried to eat his own severed penis RAW but couldn’t cuz eating that shit raw is stupid. So Meiwes tried to fry it but he cooked it too much so it wasn’t good anymore and he fed it to his dog. He fed a penis to his fucking DOG.

Then since Brandes was still bleeding, Meiwes gave him painkillers and alcohol and sleeping pills and READ A STAR TREK BOOK TO BRANDES to help him. Then he kissed Brandes lots and lots before he killed him, chopped up his body, and ate him over the course of the next ten months.

After he was sentenced to eight years of prison (then later retried and received a lifetime imprisonment), Meiwes expressed guilt over his actions and wanted to write a book about his life so that others don’t follow in his path. He also became a vegetarian while in prison.