A former queer activist from Norway sentenced to life in prison for launching an extreme body modification website dedicated to streaming “grisly and gruesome” footage of castrations and limb amputations has appealed the length of his sentence. Marius Gustavson, known as the ‘Eunuch Maker’ of London, along with five of his main accomplices, told the Old Bailey that their sentences should be reduced on the basis that their victims had consented to undergo grievous bodily harm.
Gustavson was the ringleader of a “grisly and gruesome” criminal enterprise that sold footage of men being castrated and mutilated as pornographic content. The Eunuch Maker site, which operated on a pay-per-view subscription basis, had amassed over 22,000 registered users and brought in nearly £300,000 before it was shut down by authorities.
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Prior to relocating to London and launching his twisted scheme, Gustavson was Chairman of the Board for the Buskerud chapter of transactivist lobbying group The Norwegian Organization for Sexual and Gender Diversity, now known as FRI. Gustavson was involved in a leadership position at the organization from 2001 through 2007. During this time, FRI went by the name ‘The National Association for Lesbian and Gay Liberation,’ or LLH.
In 2018, The Norwegian Organization for Sexual and Gender Diversity (FRI) successfully lobbied the World Health Organization to officially depathologize fetishism, sadomasochism, and fetishistic transvestitism by removing them from the 11th revision of the International Classifications of Diseases and Related Health Problems (ICD-11).
According to Gustavon’s LinkedIn profile, he was a volunteer and Senior Steward for London’s Pride organization between 2016 to 2019.