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My personal experience, essentially is that we smell like pork, our bodies, our flesh. So a taboo makes innate sense. I had surgery, and I was allowed to handl
by ncr100 2y ago
My personal experience, essentially is that we smell like pork, our bodies, our flesh. So a taboo makes innate sense.
I had surgery, and I was allowed to handle the part of my body that was resected. It was a bone and there was still some of my muscle.
I smelled like the best piece of pork. Like if you had a piece of pork from a pig, which that pig clearly was loved so caringly before it was slaughtered: it was worshipped, and massaged, and fed all the best food. That's what my growth suggested, odoriuosly.
(Cue the Mike Meyers joke about loving the smell of your own farts, from The Goldmember movie series..?)
My conclusion is, humans smell like pork so it's just kind of yucky to lust after the taste of another person.
There are still people who are cannibals, tribes. At least back in the '80s I understand there were active tribes in North Asia, according to a college professor's (of mine) direct experience.
- xarope 2y agolong pork: https://www.oxfordreference.com/display/10.1093/oi/authority.20110803100114139 https://www.oxfordreference.com/display/10.1093/oi/authority...
- ncr100 2y agoYup. I'd be delicious. https://youtu.be/gOE-q20RcDM?si=CrT9aV6SwutgZsAG https://youtu.be/gOE-q20RcDM?si=CrT9aV6SwutgZsAG
- RachelF 2y agoYes, pig organs can be used for human transplants, the tissue types are similar. Perhaps the pork prohibition also has some anti-cannibal echos in it. You're never sure if your pork stew is grandma?
- meitham 2y agoThe Quran hints on that similarity in a verse about punishing people by converting them to pigs and apes. Though this is not given as a reason of why pork is forbidden, but Islam places itself as a continuation of Abrahamic religion of Judaism and Christianity so most rules are kept and followed.