That sounds terrible, you might be thinking. She wrote about cases like Gilberto Valle, a New York City cop who had used the internet to share plans to abduct, rape, and eventually eat women —then escaped prison time by convincing a judge that these were only fantasies. Then there was Armin Meiwes, a German man who found a partner willing to let him cook and eat his severed penis who Meiwes then killed anyway. The reality, however, according to Dr. Victoria Hartmann, author of I Love Dead People: Inside the Minds of Death Fetishists , is that most people with a cannibalism kink are not at all interested in harming anyone.