The man behind a lucrative extreme body modification website dedicated to streaming “grisly and gruesome” footage of castrations and limb amputations has been jailed for life with a minimum of 22 years. Marius Gustavson’s 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.
Court proceedings revealed horrific details of the body modification ring, which profited from explicit videos of men undergoing “dangerous, unnecessary and life-changing surgeries,” including the removal of male genitals.
The ringleader, Gustavson, 46, was personally involved in at least 30 procedures between 2017 and 2021 before he was arrested, and had kept dismembered body parts as ‘trophies’ in a freezer at his home.
When handing down the sentence, Judge Mark Lucraft said Gustavson had been the mastermind of a “large-scale,” “gruesome and grisly”, and “extremely dangerous” enterprise, which the judge described as “human butchery.”
Judge Lucraft said he was “entirely satisfied” that the motivation “was a mix of sexual gratification as well as financial reward.”
Gustavson’s legal defense argued on his behalf that he was suffering from body integrity disorder (BID) and was merely attempting to “put a smile on people’s faces” by helping those similarly afflicted.
Prosecutor Carberry KC said there was “clear evidence” of cannibalism and that Gustavson had apparently created an “artfully arranged salad platter” of cooked testicles. Carberry showed the court images of body parts stored in plastic bags contained in Gustavson’s freezer and noted that “it wasn’t unusual for the excised genitalia to be kept by some of these defendants.”
According to Gustavon’s LinkedIn profile, he was a volunteer and Senior Steward for London’s Pride organization between 2016 to 2019. His first Eunuch Maker site was registered in 2016, and in 2018, he started a film production company called Nullset.
Prior to his relocation to London in 2012, 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).
Lucrative? Don’t make me laugh. For the purposes of the law, what’s the difference between this man’s actions and those of a doctor who — motivated by “financial reward” and other self-interests — amputates foreskin tissue from a non-consenting minor, in the absence of medical necessity, and then publishes video of the procedure online? Even the “large-scale” harvesting and trafficking of male genital tissue — again, plundered from non-consenting minors — raises scarcely a regulatory eyebrow. In Australia, provided that the perpetrator is a healthcare “professional,” they will even charge the non-therapeutic procedure to the Commonwealth purse, in flagrant defiance of statutory authority and medical ethics. Federal governments of all persuasions turn a blind eye. Far from punishing such perpetrators, lax Australian regulatory and legal frameworks serve to reward systemic male genital mutilation. The tails of Australian dogs are better protected, at state and territory law, than are the genitals of baby boys.