Pixel Scoop

A friend IMed me today to ask me (and I quote), “Do you happen to know what that thing is called, where people cook each other and eat each other?” Now that in itself was a very bizarre message to get, and most definitely a completely different way of greeting someone (personally, I think I prefer, ‘hello’). But, I answered with “cannibalism,” thinking nothing more of it. So imagine my surprise when she sent another IM saying she meant the specific in game version of this and that there’s a specialist name for it. I couldn’t decide whether I thought she was hallucinating or not. It seems not, as a while after that she informed me that the name she was looking for had been ‘Dolcett’. I was intrigued. So off I went to do my Dolcett research.

Dolcett, it appears, is taken from the name of a cartoonist famed for his images (all cartoon-style) of women generally being spit-roasted alive or asphyxiated (and often enjoying it too). And, like everything that’s talked about (or even done) by some in real life, it has made its way into Second Life.

Dolcett has been around in game for a long time, it seems. Though it doesn’t appear to be particularly well known. Gee, I wonder why. I decided I’d go have a look at what all this pixel cannibalism is about! SLX was my first stop, where a search under “Dolcett” (in uncensored) brought up 5 fairly expensive avatar cooking appliances, one in particular boasting that it could accept “meat of any gender,” and was “menu-driven,” (because of couse it would just be wrong if it wasn’t menu-driven, right?).

Then the in game stuff. Well, “Dolcett,” as a search term brings up a lot of places. I did some teleporting and, interestingly enough, despite the fact that I came across no bots or campers, the traffic at these places isn’t bad! In one particular place I was handed a set of rules upon my arrival. These stipulated that avatars such as furries, nekos, angels, demons, fairies, elves, shemales (amongst others) were not allowed in. On the other hand mermaids, aliens, clones, dolls, robots and avatars with prim-exaggerated genitals were actively encouraged. So, let me get this right? Nekos, furries and elves are weird. But aliens, mermaids and eating people are perfectly acceptable, everyday occurences? I wonder what drugs these people are taking. The notecard also informed me of a number of tags I might opt to have in the group, which included ‘butcher’ (for men only) and ’spit muffin’ (for women who actually want to be cooked and consumed by men). The rules are very strict in that only women may be ‘processed’. Obviously cooking up and eating men is out of the question. Of course! Because eating men would be…. erm, unacceptable? Anyway, there are a number of roles you can play, which include ’snuff bandit’. These are the people who are contracted to kidnap, rape and present a woman to a client who wants to cook her and eat her. The weirdness goes on!

I dragged Jenee over to check this out with me. The following photography all comes courtesy of her!

The picture above shows Jenee being served with fresh fruit. Sheesh, what in God’s name is with these people?! Meat AND fruit? Together? Come on, folks! Get your act together! And I hope they’ll be using separate chopping boards for their fruit and meat!

Of course, it would be silly to even attempt to cook your women before impaling them? Sheesh, can you imagine all that jerking around? You’d never get a thorough cook!

Barbecue, anyone?

I would like to take this opportunity to assure all readers that I did not already own a meat cleaver. I have not spent a year in Second Life collecting butchering tools. This was a freebie handed to me to enable me to partake in the, erm, processing!

And there we have it. Dolcett. If you ask me, they onlycall it that to disguise what it is, which is sexual cannibal play. I’ve seen some pretty bizarre things in my time in game, but I think this comes top of the heap. As Jenee did point out, it’s probably better that these fantasies are exercised in a pixel environment as opposed to in real life but I still find it all a bit weird. What I find the most crazy is that people get turned on by this? Seriously, what on Earth could be remotely sexual about pretending to chop someone’s avatar up to serve on a ‘girl burger’ stand? What arousal could you possibly get from virtual cannibalism? If you’re as intrigued as I am by the freaky things people get up to in game, then I would recommend teleporting around to some of these places. I would certainly advise, however, that it probably isn’t an ideal first date Keep an eye on your women while you’re there too, otherwise you may just find that your roast chicken dinner doesn’t taste quite like you expected.

By the way, barbecue at my place next week. You’re all invited. Jenee won’t be there, though. She’s, erm, going away. For a very long time. Muah ha ha!