In 1949 John George Haigh admitted that he had murdered nine people, three of them
complete strangers. In
each case he opened a vein with a penknife, tapped off a glassful of blood, and drank it. He
also liked the idea
of drinking his own urine on account of the biblical text (John VII, 38) "He that believeth in
me, the Scripture
hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water." It is well known that the drinking
of urine can have
a proudly erotic significance for some people. Havelock Ellis suffered (if that is the word)
from urolagnia, as do
a few writers to modern magazines such as "Forum".