There are definitely different types of cannibals. Africa has a very bad problem with cannibalism and cults who ritualize it. Africa is important to look at because, since this type of stuff is so widespread, their local news talks about it as if it is common knowledge. Our media, in the US, goes to a lot of troubles to sanitize stories. The most recent cannibal story I saw, where they discovered deep fried body parts, didn't even use "cannibal" in the article. In Africa, cults have taken over universities and extort professors for good grades. We have the same thing, the Skull and Bones club, etc, it's just our media doesn't talk about it. Though, what we are seeing in a lot of these stories is that most of these cannibals were put througha tremendous amount of abuse when they were young. I dare say they went through a horrifying "MKUltra" process, if you know what that means. Very much a homosexual aspect to a lot of these cases, where there was homosexual abuse of the cannibal in youth. I posit that the news routinely keeps the ritualistic components out of these cases, as well as child sacrifice cases. Maybe that makes me a crazy conspiracy theorist, but I have seen what these cannibal groups post when they believe they are in a private community.