to be perfectly honest in my opinion cannibalism as a metaphor for intimacy was never about the consumption itself so much as how you performed the act. the intimacy of it to me was ripping into someone's flesh with your teeth and fingernails and getting their blood on your face. learning the shape of their body inside and out through tearing,... See more

Endo-cannibalism is cannibalism within your own community that can be ritualistic or part of funerary rites, and it involves someone that you know, someone close, someone important to you.