Citations:androphagia

English citations of androphagia

• 1950, Roy Temple House, Ernst Erich Noth, Books Abroad - Volume 24, page 163:

  M. Toesca has shown us the problem of women in his novels, Le Suicide indirect (1943), Le Singe bleu (Prix Courteline, 1948), and especially Les Scorpionnes (1947), whose tide immortalizes androphagia among these insects and its echoes among ourselves. (Francis J. Carmody)

• 2004, Severino J. Albuquerque, Tentative Transgressions: Homosexuality, AIDS, and the Theater in Brazil, →ISBN, page 12:

  Although not per se an indicator of homosexuality, cannibalism among most of the Tupi tribes was a matter of “androphagia,” that is, eating of men by men. Because of their perceived bravery and corresponding privileges, only men were considered worthy of being eaten after death, their qualities preserved and their flesh absobed by each abaporu ("one who eats").