Võ Thanh Liêm
05-30-2012, 01:04 AM
Sốc chuyện họa sỹ Nhật nấu và bán món “của quý” của mình
(Dân trí) - Câu chuyện một họa sỹ Nhật đã nấu “của quý” của mình và phục vụ cho 5 “thực khách” ở Tokyo nhằm trang trải viện phí đã gây sốc và làm dấy lên lo ngại về nhóm “giới tính thiểu số”.
http://dantri4.vcmedia.vn/SF9n0XnWe1mhJ0SanI/Image/2012/05/2_c1f80.jpg
Mao Sugiyama đã phẫu thuật cắt bỏ "của quý" và quyết định nấu chúng cho 5 thực khách để trang trải viện phí sau ca phẫu thuật.
Mao Sugiyama đã phẫu thuật cắt bỏ của quý và tinh hoàn của mình vào tháng 3 vừa qua và giữ chúng trong tủ lạnh trong 2 tháng trước khi đem ra chế biến, (cho gia vị và hầm), cho các khách hàng tại một sự kiện vào ngày 13/5 vừa qua. Thông tin này được cảnh sát Nhật cho biết và cũng được hé lộ trên trang Twitter của Mao Sugiyama.
Các thực khách phải trả 20.000 yên (khoảng 5,2 triệu VND) cho món có một phần “quỷ quý” của anh. Ảnh về món ăn này đã được công bố trên một trang web và có vẻ như cho thấy món ăn được thêm nấm và trang trí bằng rau mùi.
http://dantri4.vcmedia.vn/SF9n0XnWe1mhJ0SanI/Image/2012/05/3_d142d.jpg
Thực khách phải trả 20.000 yên cho món ăn có một phần của quý của Mao Sugiyama
Họa sỹ Sugiyama, được cho là 22 tuổi, cho biết trên Twitter rằng “của quý” của anh là do một bác sỹ cắt bỏ và được chứng thực không bị nhiễm trùng.
Món ăn cũng được chuẩn bị dưới sự giám sát của một đầu bếp có chứng nhận và thực khách được yêu cầu ký giấy khước từ bồi thường cho Sugiyama và người tổ chức sự kiện.
http://dantri4.vcmedia.vn/SF9n0XnWe1mhJ0SanI/Image/2012/05/4_5a168.jpg
http://dantri4.vcmedia.vn/SF9n0XnWe1mhJ0SanI/Image/2012/05/5_5c16c.jpg
Món "của quý" của Mao Sugiyama có thêm nấm và rau mùi.
Trong đăng tải trên trang Twitter ngày 18/5, người họa sỹ trẻ cho biết các bước trên được thực hiện nhằm đáp ứng đủ mọi luật định liên quan, như luật cấm bán các bộ phận cơ thể, xử lý rác thải y tế và thậm chí là các yêu cầu về vệ sinh thực phẩm.
“Tôi đã nhận được yêu cầu của một số phụ nữ và đàn ông…hỏi “Sẽ có lần sau nữa hay không? Hãy tổ chức thêm”. Nhưng mỗi người đàn ông chỉ có một bộ “của quý””, anh cho biết trên trang Twitter ngày 16/5.
“Không may là tôi không có kế hoạch gì cho lần sau”.
http://dantri4.vcmedia.vn/SF9n0XnWe1mhJ0SanI/Image/2012/05/6_8a978.jpg
Mao Sugiyama cất giữ của quý bị cắt bỏ của mình trong tủ lạnh 2 tháng.
Sugiyama tự coi mình là người “vô tính”, tức không có giới tính. Mới đầu anh định ăn “của quý” của chính mình nhưng sau đó đã quyết định chia sẻ cho khách hàng giúp anh trả tiền viện phí sau ca phẫu thuật.
Trong bức thư điện tử gửi hãng thông tấn AFP, anh xác nhận có sự kiện trên xảy ra và cho biết sự kiện được tổ chức nhằm nâng cao nhận thức về “nhóm giới tính thiểu số, người đồng tính, phi giới tính”. Anh cho biết đã sẵn sàng công bố chi tiết chính thức về sự kiện hôm đó.
Cảnh sát ở Tokyo cho biết họ biết về sự kiện nhưng khẳng định vụ việc không vi phạm luật bởi tục ăn thịt người không phi pháp tại Nhật.
“Chúng tôi biết sự việc. Không có gì phi pháp cả. Nó không vi phạm bất kỳ luật nào. Không có hành động nào được đưa ra”, một sỹ quan tại đồn cảnh sát Suginami cho hay.
Phan Anh
Theo AFP
__._,_.___Japanese Artist Mao Sugiyama Cooks and Serves His Own Genitals to 5 Diners at Public ‘Ham Cybele’ Banquet
Tokyo Transsexual Cooks and Serves His Own Genitals at Public “Ham Cybele” Banquet, Police Shrug, “It’s Not Illegal”
“Please retweet. I am offering my male genitals (full penis, testes, scrotum) as a meal for 100,000 yen…. I will prepare and cook as the buyer requests, at his chosen location.”
http://calorielab.com/news/wp-images/post-images/ham-cybele-chef.jpg
On Sunday, April 13, Tokyo illustrator Mao Sugiyama (http://h-c.main.jp/)(who goes by the nickname “HC”), publicly seasoned and braised his own genitals on a portable gas cartridge burner, and then served them to five eager diners who each paid about $250 for the meal (a sixth was a no-show). The genitals had been returned to the asexual Sugiyama, frozen and double-bagged in plastic, following elective genital removal surgery on his 22nd birthday on March 31.
After initially considering eating them himself, Sugiyama offered the meal on Twitter in mid-April to the first person willing to pay 100,000 yen (about $1,250). But after the notoriety that his tweet caused, he organized a public banquet (http://h-c.main.jp/hamcybele), dubbed “Ham Cybele – Century Banquet,” at the “Asagaya Loft A (http://www.loft-prj.co.jp/lofta/schedule/lofta.cgi)” event space in the Suginami Ward of Tokyo. “Century” in Japanese is a homophone for the Japanese word for “genitals”; “Ham Cybele” refers to the Anatolian mother goddess, prefixed with an appropriate word for tough meat to create a phrase whose initials match Sugiyama’s artist name of HC.
The day before the event Sugiyama tweeted (http://twitter.com/#!/Ho_Ch/status/201292758403653632), “I’m starting to thaw them out,” and posted this photo (http://www3.atword.jp/hornchameleon/files/2012/05/ss_img_1915.jpg) (warning: not for the squeamish). On the day of the event a crowd of about 70 mostly twenty-somethings gathered, five to a table, to listen to a piano recital and panel discussion before the dinner.
Although only five servings of the genitals were available, the other diners were served alternate beef- and crocodile-based dishes. The cooking was done by Sugiyama himself, dressed as a chef, under the supervision of a licensed food preparation specialist.
http://calorielab.com/labnotes//images/tokyo-ham-cybele-genital-cannibalism
The five genital eaters comprised a 32-year-old male manga artist (there for “research”), a 30-year-old white-collar couple (who were “curious”), an attractive 22-year-old woman (who wondered how it would feel), and 29-year-old event planner Shigenobu Matsuzawa, 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.” Matsuzawa posted a detailed blog post on April 14 after the banquet, including about 20 photographs (the source of our photos here). He boasted on Twitter that he was getting twice the traffic he’d gotten when his blog was once profiled on prime-time Japanese television. But on May 19 he suddenly deleted the post and replaced it with a new post (http://www.another-tokyo.com/archives/50488762.html) explaining that the removal was due to privacy considerations. Sugiyama himself had linked to and seemed to endorse the blog post.
http://calorielab.com/news/wp-images/post-images/ham-cybele-dining-table.jpg
Diners were required to sign a waiver releasing Sugiyama and the event organizers from any liability arising from the consumption of the genitals. Sugiyama stated that before his operation he had been tested to be free of any venereal diseases (although during the panel discussion he admitted that he had gone on a one-month sex binge with anonymous internet partners just to make sure he wouldn’t regret the operation). He stated that he had not yet started receiving female hormone therapy the time of the operation. He also added that the pre-severed penis could attain an erect length of 16.1 cm (about 6.3 inches).
http://calorielab.com/news/wp-images/post-images/hc-slicing-penis.jpg
Close-up photos of the braised genitals showed 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.
http://calorielab.com/news/wp-images/post-images/ham-cybele-penis-testicle-scrotum1.jpg
Sugiyama told the tense but giggly crowd during the pre-dinner interview that he would be contributing his genital recipes to the Japanese recipe website Cookpad.com (http://Cookpad.com). (Note: A photo from Sugiyama’s Twitter stream of two large, meaty balls together on a plate (http://cdn2-b.examiner.com/sites/default/files/styles/large_lightbox/hash/31/62/3162062dbf229ba77517dd333b74f9f8.jpg) has been misidentified by some websites as his testicles. They are actually beef steak cubes that Sugiyama used to develop his recipe before the real event.)
http://calorielab.com/news/wp-images/post-images/ham-cybele-plate.jpg
Sugiyama had also intended to include his nipples on the menu, but his attempt toburn them off with sodium hydroxide (http://twitpic.com/8hhh61) did not result in anything usable.
What was the verdict by the eaters? According to the deleted blog post by Matsuzawa, the hard, rubbery penis root almost bent his fork, and he spit it out after a few chews. The only taste was of the red wine that it had been pre-stewed in. The scrotum was surprisingly even harder and more rubbery than the penis, but tasteless. (Matsuzawa didn’t mention the pubic hair.) The testicles were hard on the outside, soft and glutinous in the middle, with a fishy or gamey taste. One of Matsuzawa’s friends in attendance asked for a piece of the penis and ate it, but after the event became distraught and expressed regret that he had lost his common sense in the heat of the moment.
A spokesman for the Suginami police told CalorieLab that they had received many inquires and complaints from concerned citizens, but that they were unable to pursue the matter because there is no law prohibiting cannibalism in Japan. Nevertheless, the spokesman said, “We’re going to talk to the people at Asagaya Loft A and ask them what is going on and why they hosted such an event.”
Sugiyama has not posted any photos of his post-operation crotch area, but in a tweet he responded to a question by saying that surgeons created a urethra opening for urination in front of his anus at the lowest spot of his crotch, not in the front as you might expect. Looking at a side view illustration of the male reproductive tract, this looks like a logical exit point to minimize the length of the urethra, and perhaps it’s the best position for using a sit-down toilet.
http://calorielab.com/news/wp-images/post-images/hc-mai-sugiyama.jpg
Sugiyama is cheerfully answering questions (http://twitter.com/#!/Ho_Ch/) from curious Twitter members about Ham Cybele, his operation, and especially his new corset, which he’s wearing to help maintain an androgynous shape as his female hormone therapy progresses (the hormones are for “health purposes”). He tweets that his surgery cost him 1 million yen (about $12,500). He reports that video of the Ham Cybele event was taken and that it and a written “Ham Cybele Official Report” will be available at a later date.
On his Twitter stream and personal website Sugiyama affects an etherial, artistic persona, and considers the shedding of sexual paraphernalia a step towards a higher plane of existence. Ironically, photos of the event and tweets to him afterwards suggest that getting his sex organs removed made him into something of a chick magnet. Attractive 20-something Japanese women can’t seem to get enough of him.
The original tweet (http://twitter.com/#!/Ho_Ch/status/188931954777919489) that started this is reproduced below:
[Please Retweet] 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.
http://calorielab.com/news/wp-images/post-images/ham-cybele-original-tweet.jpghttp://calorielab.com/news/wp-images/post-images/ham-cybele-flyer.jpg
[We used the male singular pronoun "he" throughout this post. Sugiyama self-identifies as asexual, neither male nor female, and aspires to be so devoid of sexual features that he will be able to publicly wear transparent clothing. Sugiyama appears to fall into the gender nullification class of male-to-eunichs sometimes called "smoothies (http://gendertrender.wordpress.com/2011/02/13/male-to-eunuch-asexuality-and-gender-nullification/)," those eunuchs who have elected to remove their penises and nipples in addition to their testicles, without replacing the removed organs with surgically created female organs. There are proposals to create a new pronoun for this asexual "third sex" (http://nonbinary.org/wiki/Pronouns), which we reckon will happen around the time that asexual restrooms appear in Walmart.]
Update: Tokyo residents can meet Chef Sugiyama in person (https://twitter.com/Ho_Ch/status/205008593186070528) on Friday May 27 at theAbilletage corset shop and tea salon (http://www.abilletage.com/) from 5:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. The shop is on the third floor of the AM/PM convenience store building on Meiji Douri street between the Shinjuku Station Southern Plaza exit and Yoyogi Station of the Yamanote Line. Sugiyama will be cooking and serving waffles certified to be free of genital material. In addition, he will be selling books of his illustrations and demonstrating nail art techniques. (Update: Tweet from Abilletage (https://twitter.com/abilletage/status/204839064346693632) with waffle photo, and blog post (http://ameblo.jp/abilletage/entry-11257863343.html) with nail art photo.)
http://calorielab.com/news/wp-images/post-images/hc-mai-sugiyama-waffles.jpg
(Dân trí) - Câu chuyện một họa sỹ Nhật đã nấu “của quý” của mình và phục vụ cho 5 “thực khách” ở Tokyo nhằm trang trải viện phí đã gây sốc và làm dấy lên lo ngại về nhóm “giới tính thiểu số”.
http://dantri4.vcmedia.vn/SF9n0XnWe1mhJ0SanI/Image/2012/05/2_c1f80.jpg
Mao Sugiyama đã phẫu thuật cắt bỏ "của quý" và quyết định nấu chúng cho 5 thực khách để trang trải viện phí sau ca phẫu thuật.
Mao Sugiyama đã phẫu thuật cắt bỏ của quý và tinh hoàn của mình vào tháng 3 vừa qua và giữ chúng trong tủ lạnh trong 2 tháng trước khi đem ra chế biến, (cho gia vị và hầm), cho các khách hàng tại một sự kiện vào ngày 13/5 vừa qua. Thông tin này được cảnh sát Nhật cho biết và cũng được hé lộ trên trang Twitter của Mao Sugiyama.
Các thực khách phải trả 20.000 yên (khoảng 5,2 triệu VND) cho món có một phần “quỷ quý” của anh. Ảnh về món ăn này đã được công bố trên một trang web và có vẻ như cho thấy món ăn được thêm nấm và trang trí bằng rau mùi.
http://dantri4.vcmedia.vn/SF9n0XnWe1mhJ0SanI/Image/2012/05/3_d142d.jpg
Thực khách phải trả 20.000 yên cho món ăn có một phần của quý của Mao Sugiyama
Họa sỹ Sugiyama, được cho là 22 tuổi, cho biết trên Twitter rằng “của quý” của anh là do một bác sỹ cắt bỏ và được chứng thực không bị nhiễm trùng.
Món ăn cũng được chuẩn bị dưới sự giám sát của một đầu bếp có chứng nhận và thực khách được yêu cầu ký giấy khước từ bồi thường cho Sugiyama và người tổ chức sự kiện.
http://dantri4.vcmedia.vn/SF9n0XnWe1mhJ0SanI/Image/2012/05/4_5a168.jpg
http://dantri4.vcmedia.vn/SF9n0XnWe1mhJ0SanI/Image/2012/05/5_5c16c.jpg
Món "của quý" của Mao Sugiyama có thêm nấm và rau mùi.
Trong đăng tải trên trang Twitter ngày 18/5, người họa sỹ trẻ cho biết các bước trên được thực hiện nhằm đáp ứng đủ mọi luật định liên quan, như luật cấm bán các bộ phận cơ thể, xử lý rác thải y tế và thậm chí là các yêu cầu về vệ sinh thực phẩm.
“Tôi đã nhận được yêu cầu của một số phụ nữ và đàn ông…hỏi “Sẽ có lần sau nữa hay không? Hãy tổ chức thêm”. Nhưng mỗi người đàn ông chỉ có một bộ “của quý””, anh cho biết trên trang Twitter ngày 16/5.
“Không may là tôi không có kế hoạch gì cho lần sau”.
http://dantri4.vcmedia.vn/SF9n0XnWe1mhJ0SanI/Image/2012/05/6_8a978.jpg
Mao Sugiyama cất giữ của quý bị cắt bỏ của mình trong tủ lạnh 2 tháng.
Sugiyama tự coi mình là người “vô tính”, tức không có giới tính. Mới đầu anh định ăn “của quý” của chính mình nhưng sau đó đã quyết định chia sẻ cho khách hàng giúp anh trả tiền viện phí sau ca phẫu thuật.
Trong bức thư điện tử gửi hãng thông tấn AFP, anh xác nhận có sự kiện trên xảy ra và cho biết sự kiện được tổ chức nhằm nâng cao nhận thức về “nhóm giới tính thiểu số, người đồng tính, phi giới tính”. Anh cho biết đã sẵn sàng công bố chi tiết chính thức về sự kiện hôm đó.
Cảnh sát ở Tokyo cho biết họ biết về sự kiện nhưng khẳng định vụ việc không vi phạm luật bởi tục ăn thịt người không phi pháp tại Nhật.
“Chúng tôi biết sự việc. Không có gì phi pháp cả. Nó không vi phạm bất kỳ luật nào. Không có hành động nào được đưa ra”, một sỹ quan tại đồn cảnh sát Suginami cho hay.
Phan Anh
Theo AFP
__._,_.___Japanese Artist Mao Sugiyama Cooks and Serves His Own Genitals to 5 Diners at Public ‘Ham Cybele’ Banquet
Tokyo Transsexual Cooks and Serves His Own Genitals at Public “Ham Cybele” Banquet, Police Shrug, “It’s Not Illegal”
“Please retweet. I am offering my male genitals (full penis, testes, scrotum) as a meal for 100,000 yen…. I will prepare and cook as the buyer requests, at his chosen location.”
http://calorielab.com/news/wp-images/post-images/ham-cybele-chef.jpg
On Sunday, April 13, Tokyo illustrator Mao Sugiyama (http://h-c.main.jp/)(who goes by the nickname “HC”), publicly seasoned and braised his own genitals on a portable gas cartridge burner, and then served them to five eager diners who each paid about $250 for the meal (a sixth was a no-show). The genitals had been returned to the asexual Sugiyama, frozen and double-bagged in plastic, following elective genital removal surgery on his 22nd birthday on March 31.
After initially considering eating them himself, Sugiyama offered the meal on Twitter in mid-April to the first person willing to pay 100,000 yen (about $1,250). But after the notoriety that his tweet caused, he organized a public banquet (http://h-c.main.jp/hamcybele), dubbed “Ham Cybele – Century Banquet,” at the “Asagaya Loft A (http://www.loft-prj.co.jp/lofta/schedule/lofta.cgi)” event space in the Suginami Ward of Tokyo. “Century” in Japanese is a homophone for the Japanese word for “genitals”; “Ham Cybele” refers to the Anatolian mother goddess, prefixed with an appropriate word for tough meat to create a phrase whose initials match Sugiyama’s artist name of HC.
The day before the event Sugiyama tweeted (http://twitter.com/#!/Ho_Ch/status/201292758403653632), “I’m starting to thaw them out,” and posted this photo (http://www3.atword.jp/hornchameleon/files/2012/05/ss_img_1915.jpg) (warning: not for the squeamish). On the day of the event a crowd of about 70 mostly twenty-somethings gathered, five to a table, to listen to a piano recital and panel discussion before the dinner.
Although only five servings of the genitals were available, the other diners were served alternate beef- and crocodile-based dishes. The cooking was done by Sugiyama himself, dressed as a chef, under the supervision of a licensed food preparation specialist.
http://calorielab.com/labnotes//images/tokyo-ham-cybele-genital-cannibalism
The five genital eaters comprised a 32-year-old male manga artist (there for “research”), a 30-year-old white-collar couple (who were “curious”), an attractive 22-year-old woman (who wondered how it would feel), and 29-year-old event planner Shigenobu Matsuzawa, 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.” Matsuzawa posted a detailed blog post on April 14 after the banquet, including about 20 photographs (the source of our photos here). He boasted on Twitter that he was getting twice the traffic he’d gotten when his blog was once profiled on prime-time Japanese television. But on May 19 he suddenly deleted the post and replaced it with a new post (http://www.another-tokyo.com/archives/50488762.html) explaining that the removal was due to privacy considerations. Sugiyama himself had linked to and seemed to endorse the blog post.
http://calorielab.com/news/wp-images/post-images/ham-cybele-dining-table.jpg
Diners were required to sign a waiver releasing Sugiyama and the event organizers from any liability arising from the consumption of the genitals. Sugiyama stated that before his operation he had been tested to be free of any venereal diseases (although during the panel discussion he admitted that he had gone on a one-month sex binge with anonymous internet partners just to make sure he wouldn’t regret the operation). He stated that he had not yet started receiving female hormone therapy the time of the operation. He also added that the pre-severed penis could attain an erect length of 16.1 cm (about 6.3 inches).
http://calorielab.com/news/wp-images/post-images/hc-slicing-penis.jpg
Close-up photos of the braised genitals showed 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.
http://calorielab.com/news/wp-images/post-images/ham-cybele-penis-testicle-scrotum1.jpg
Sugiyama told the tense but giggly crowd during the pre-dinner interview that he would be contributing his genital recipes to the Japanese recipe website Cookpad.com (http://Cookpad.com). (Note: A photo from Sugiyama’s Twitter stream of two large, meaty balls together on a plate (http://cdn2-b.examiner.com/sites/default/files/styles/large_lightbox/hash/31/62/3162062dbf229ba77517dd333b74f9f8.jpg) has been misidentified by some websites as his testicles. They are actually beef steak cubes that Sugiyama used to develop his recipe before the real event.)
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Sugiyama had also intended to include his nipples on the menu, but his attempt toburn them off with sodium hydroxide (http://twitpic.com/8hhh61) did not result in anything usable.
What was the verdict by the eaters? According to the deleted blog post by Matsuzawa, the hard, rubbery penis root almost bent his fork, and he spit it out after a few chews. The only taste was of the red wine that it had been pre-stewed in. The scrotum was surprisingly even harder and more rubbery than the penis, but tasteless. (Matsuzawa didn’t mention the pubic hair.) The testicles were hard on the outside, soft and glutinous in the middle, with a fishy or gamey taste. One of Matsuzawa’s friends in attendance asked for a piece of the penis and ate it, but after the event became distraught and expressed regret that he had lost his common sense in the heat of the moment.
A spokesman for the Suginami police told CalorieLab that they had received many inquires and complaints from concerned citizens, but that they were unable to pursue the matter because there is no law prohibiting cannibalism in Japan. Nevertheless, the spokesman said, “We’re going to talk to the people at Asagaya Loft A and ask them what is going on and why they hosted such an event.”
Sugiyama has not posted any photos of his post-operation crotch area, but in a tweet he responded to a question by saying that surgeons created a urethra opening for urination in front of his anus at the lowest spot of his crotch, not in the front as you might expect. Looking at a side view illustration of the male reproductive tract, this looks like a logical exit point to minimize the length of the urethra, and perhaps it’s the best position for using a sit-down toilet.
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Sugiyama is cheerfully answering questions (http://twitter.com/#!/Ho_Ch/) from curious Twitter members about Ham Cybele, his operation, and especially his new corset, which he’s wearing to help maintain an androgynous shape as his female hormone therapy progresses (the hormones are for “health purposes”). He tweets that his surgery cost him 1 million yen (about $12,500). He reports that video of the Ham Cybele event was taken and that it and a written “Ham Cybele Official Report” will be available at a later date.
On his Twitter stream and personal website Sugiyama affects an etherial, artistic persona, and considers the shedding of sexual paraphernalia a step towards a higher plane of existence. Ironically, photos of the event and tweets to him afterwards suggest that getting his sex organs removed made him into something of a chick magnet. Attractive 20-something Japanese women can’t seem to get enough of him.
The original tweet (http://twitter.com/#!/Ho_Ch/status/188931954777919489) that started this is reproduced below:
[Please Retweet] 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.
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[We used the male singular pronoun "he" throughout this post. Sugiyama self-identifies as asexual, neither male nor female, and aspires to be so devoid of sexual features that he will be able to publicly wear transparent clothing. Sugiyama appears to fall into the gender nullification class of male-to-eunichs sometimes called "smoothies (http://gendertrender.wordpress.com/2011/02/13/male-to-eunuch-asexuality-and-gender-nullification/)," those eunuchs who have elected to remove their penises and nipples in addition to their testicles, without replacing the removed organs with surgically created female organs. There are proposals to create a new pronoun for this asexual "third sex" (http://nonbinary.org/wiki/Pronouns), which we reckon will happen around the time that asexual restrooms appear in Walmart.]
Update: Tokyo residents can meet Chef Sugiyama in person (https://twitter.com/Ho_Ch/status/205008593186070528) on Friday May 27 at theAbilletage corset shop and tea salon (http://www.abilletage.com/) from 5:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. The shop is on the third floor of the AM/PM convenience store building on Meiji Douri street between the Shinjuku Station Southern Plaza exit and Yoyogi Station of the Yamanote Line. Sugiyama will be cooking and serving waffles certified to be free of genital material. In addition, he will be selling books of his illustrations and demonstrating nail art techniques. (Update: Tweet from Abilletage (https://twitter.com/abilletage/status/204839064346693632) with waffle photo, and blog post (http://ameblo.jp/abilletage/entry-11257863343.html) with nail art photo.)
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