I don't mind some sashimi, caviar in sushi or things like yellowfin with some lemon juice when served etc. However you wouldn't catch me eating supermarket raw meat like Wendy in the OP does, at least go to the butchers FFS. I enjoy a rare steak but prefer medium rare, raw flesh isn't a texture I enjoy as much as cooked.
I've ate lots of sashimi here, i prefer it to cooked fish, it seems like they have a perverse obsession with accentuating fishy smells to the point of skunk musk potency when they cook the things.. so it's sashimi all the way!
I go as far as eating bloody but cooked meat or carpaccio, raw is a bit too ultra for me.
But i eat raw fish when i eat sushi\sashimi.
When i was little sometimes i enjoyed some small bits of raw sausage with some bread but it was a bit risky (because of the worm you can get from raw pig meat)
I’ve watched a cooking show where they carved up a cow and certain small bits they cut off the body then put it straight in their mouth. Doesn’t get much more fresh or raw than that.
Raw meat isn’t for me though, I don’t even go below medium-rare steak. Tried a bite of blue once, and that’s my curiosity satisfied for the foreseeable future.