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Necrophilia, also called thanatophilia and necrolagnia, is a paraphilia characterized by a sexual attraction to corpses. The word is artificially derived from Ancient Greek: νεκρός (nekros; "corpse," or "dead") and φιλία (philia; "love"). The term appears to have originated from Krafft-Ebing's 1886 work Psychopathia Sexualis.
Figuratively, the term "necrophilia" describes an inordinate desire to control another person, usually in the context of a romantic or interpersonal relationship; the accusation is that the person is so interpersonally controlling as to be better-suited to relationships with nonresponsive people.
As of May, 2006, there is no federal legislation specifically barring sex with a corpse. Multiple states have their own laws:
Alabama - Class C felony
Alaska - Class A misdemeanour
Arkansas - Class D felony
California - Illegal, up to 8 years in prison
Colorado - Class 2 misdemeanour
Delaware - Class A misdemeanour
Florida-- Second degree felony
Georgia - Felony, up to 10 years in prison
Hawaii - Misdemeanour
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Theoderich's 'Necrophilia: A Beginner's Guide'
The Crime Library's 'All About Necrophiles'
Rob's Necrophilia Fantasy Site
'Necrophilia Among Ducks Ruffles Research Feathers'
Necrophilia as defined by satanticlust.com
'Necrophilia Variations,' a literary monograph on the erotic attraction to corpses and death
A rather thorough page on Necrophilia at answers.com
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Proponent #1: The NecroErotic
'Necrophilic Principles'
1. (Our Rights) Wherever we may reside, necrophiliacs have as much right to engage in their orgasmic release of choice as do "normal" couples. When necessary, this extends to corpse theft from morgues, mortuaries, hospitals and graveyards. With such actions being classified as a felony in many areas, however, this statement is not meant to encourage the reader to take careless risks. This is a theoretical principle, not an explicitly practical one. Also, the use of open murder to produce corpses is not advocated for obvious reasons.
2. (No "Rights" for Cadavers) All 'rights' cease the moment a person draws their last breath. Therefore, any and all deeds performed on a cadaver, including erotic acts, dismemberment/disembowelment and cannibalism are to be considered, at worst, destruction of physical matter.
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from 'A Necrophilic Solution to a Sexual Dilemma in Society'
... With 33,355 teens and pre-teens being turned into corpses each year, the feasibility for necrophilic brothels designed to cater to infantophiles, pedophiles and ephebophiles certainly exists. If such businesses were to become a reality, the cadavers could be divided throughout the country, with higher population areas receiving the majority of the bodies. Persons of all three youth-based orientations, both the types who only have or desire to have consensual sex with minors and coercive 'molesters' , who ordinarily would have or attempt to gain sex via violence could visit these locations and have sexual intercourse with the dead shells of young people. Even the most rabid social worker or religious fanatic would be forced to conclude that it is impossible to harm a corpse. Therefore, all of the discussion we have heard about real and imagined harm done to youngsters by sex with adults would be rendered moot. A fee could be charged every time a 'john' rented one of these bodies. Based on the number of people who would be willing to pay for this service, a price could eventually be established that would cover corpse preservation and cremation costs, plus allow the agencies handling the procedure to make a small profit in the long run. While we're on the subject of cost, most of you probably have heard that it costs more to keep a person in prison for one year than it would cost to put that same person through college. Even if these insane 'age of consent' laws were to remain in place, imagine the money spent on prison costs that could be saved if brothels such as this were set up to allow people the chance to legally express their lust without harming anyone.
Visit The NecroErotic
Proponent #2: The Azrael Project
'It is very easy to get "caught up" in the ecstasy of Death, especially during high necromantic practice when the spirit of one's affection is manifest through a physical catalyst, such as a corpse. One must never violate the sanctity of Death for one's own physical curiosity or pleasure. You must never force your affections onto an unwilling or unresponsive catalyst. Doing such is no better than raping an innocent child. In necromantic practice, the corpse must always be viewed as the pure vessel that contains a divine spirit. The crypt is a sacred temple, and the catalyst, a sacred chalice that must never be defiled by empty, physical urges. The only passions that should manifest in the physical are those born in the spirit. In other words, all sensual stirrings must have firm roots in the soul. One must love the entity one is seeking to contact, and not simply make "love" to the empty catalyst. If there is contact on the spiritual level, the catalyst will either make the first move, or respond in some way to your advances, and you need only follow its lead.
'To violate a corpse for simply the satiating of one's own sexual needs is the highest form of irreverence one can show towards Death, and he or she who engages in such profanity will feel the full wrath of Azrael's fury. One can "make love" to Death on many levels, providing they emerge from the core of the soul, and not the seat of the libido. Death is a gentle and exquisite lover who can take you to new heights of expression, providing that you do not try to pull Him down into the physical too much, in which case Death's affections are anything but gentle! Being a magician, especially in the necromantic arts, does not give one license to "do what thou wilt". In dealings with such entities as the Angel of Death, one must adopt a new law, a law of reverence and purity of spirit. Divine love is the "law", and nothing less be the purpose of thy will.'
Visit The Azrael Project
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5 notable necrophiles
Sergeant Francois Bertrand in his own words: 'On the 23rd or 25th of February 1847, a strange kind of fury seized me and made me do the things for which I was arrested. Here is how it happened. One day, I went for a walk in the country with one of my friends when we came by a cemetery; we entered it, to satisfy our curiousity. Someone had been buried the day before; the undertaker, surprised by rain, had not finished covering the grave and had left his tools on the ground. When I saw this, I was overcome with gloomy thoughts. I suffered from a violent headache; my heart got carried away and I couldn't control myself anymore. I gave my friend the excuse that I had to go back to town immediately and when I got rid of him, I went back to the graveyard. I picked up a shovel and I started to dig the grave. When I finally removed the corpse from its tomb, I started to hit it with the shovel, driven by a rage I cannot explain. But a worker suddenly appeared at the cemetery's gate. I stood up, but then I saw no one. The man had gone to alert the authorities. I climbed out of the grave, and after re-covering the corpse with dirt, I jumped over the graveyard's wall...' (cont.)
Learn more about Sergeant Bertrand here
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The Wannabes: 'LANCASTER, Wis. - Three young men accused of trying to dig up a young woman's body to have sex with it had charges of attempted sexual assault dismissed Friday by a judge who noted Wisconsin has no law against necrophilia. Grant County Circuit Judge George Curry dismissed those charges against twins Nicholas and Alexander Grunke, 20, of Ridgeway, and Dustin Radke, 20, of Mineral Point, but they still face lesser charges.' (cont.)
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Ray Brent Marsh: 'A crematory operator who dumped 336 bodies on his rural North Georgia property instead of cremating them and sent cement dust to the families of the deceased instead of their ashes will serve 12 years in prison, as a result of a plea deal. Ray Brent March, who will get credit for seven months served as he has awaited trial, was charged with 787 criminal charges of theft and abuse of a corpse and could have been sentenced to more than 8,000 years in prison had he been convicted by a jury.' (cont.)
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Viktor Ardisson in his own words: 'I dug up the body of the little girl you found at my home the day after her burial. September the 12th 1901, after midnight, I opened the coffin closed by 2 dowels, then, after I removed the body, I closed it and I covered it up again with earth, like it was before. When I came back home, I laid the corpse on loose straw, where you found it. Then I indulged myself in disgraceful practices on her. Each time I slept next to her, I assuaged my lust. I always have done it all alone, and my father doesn't know that I do such things.' (cont,)
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Karen Greenlee: is a necrophiliac. Five years ago she made national headlines when she drove off in a hearse and wasn't heard from for two days. Instead of delivering the body to the cemetery she decided to spend some time alone with the corpse. Eventually, the police found her in the next county, overdosed on codeine Tylenol. She was charged with illegally driving a hearse and interfering with the burial (there is no law in California against necrophilia). In the casket with the body Karen left a four-and-a-half page letter confessing to amorous episodes with between twenty to forty dead men. The letter was filled with remorse over her sexual desires: "Why do I do it? Why? Why? Fear of love, relationships. No romance ever hurt like this ... It's the pits. I'm a morgue rat. This is my rathole, perhaps my grave."' -- from 'The Unrepentant Necrophile' by Jim Morton
Read an interview with Greenlee here
Sergeant Francois Bertrand in his own words: 'On the 23rd or 25th of February 1847, a strange kind of fury seized me and made me do the things for which I was arrested. Here is how it happened. One day, I went for a walk in the country with one of my friends when we came by a cemetery; we entered it, to satisfy our curiousity. Someone had been buried the day before; the undertaker, surprised by rain, had not finished covering the grave and had left his tools on the ground. When I saw this, I was overcome with gloomy thoughts. I suffered from a violent headache; my heart got carried away and I couldn't control myself anymore. I gave my friend the excuse that I had to go back to town immediately and when I got rid of him, I went back to the graveyard. I picked up a shovel and I started to dig the grave. When I finally removed the corpse from its tomb, I started to hit it with the shovel, driven by a rage I cannot explain. But a worker suddenly appeared at the cemetery's gate. I stood up, but then I saw no one. The man had gone to alert the authorities. I climbed out of the grave, and after re-covering the corpse with dirt, I jumped over the graveyard's wall...' (cont.)
Learn more about Sergeant Bertrand here
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The Wannabes: 'LANCASTER, Wis. - Three young men accused of trying to dig up a young woman's body to have sex with it had charges of attempted sexual assault dismissed Friday by a judge who noted Wisconsin has no law against necrophilia. Grant County Circuit Judge George Curry dismissed those charges against twins Nicholas and Alexander Grunke, 20, of Ridgeway, and Dustin Radke, 20, of Mineral Point, but they still face lesser charges.' (cont.)
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Ray Brent Marsh: 'A crematory operator who dumped 336 bodies on his rural North Georgia property instead of cremating them and sent cement dust to the families of the deceased instead of their ashes will serve 12 years in prison, as a result of a plea deal. Ray Brent March, who will get credit for seven months served as he has awaited trial, was charged with 787 criminal charges of theft and abuse of a corpse and could have been sentenced to more than 8,000 years in prison had he been convicted by a jury.' (cont.)
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Viktor Ardisson in his own words: 'I dug up the body of the little girl you found at my home the day after her burial. September the 12th 1901, after midnight, I opened the coffin closed by 2 dowels, then, after I removed the body, I closed it and I covered it up again with earth, like it was before. When I came back home, I laid the corpse on loose straw, where you found it. Then I indulged myself in disgraceful practices on her. Each time I slept next to her, I assuaged my lust. I always have done it all alone, and my father doesn't know that I do such things.' (cont,)
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Karen Greenlee: is a necrophiliac. Five years ago she made national headlines when she drove off in a hearse and wasn't heard from for two days. Instead of delivering the body to the cemetery she decided to spend some time alone with the corpse. Eventually, the police found her in the next county, overdosed on codeine Tylenol. She was charged with illegally driving a hearse and interfering with the burial (there is no law in California against necrophilia). In the casket with the body Karen left a four-and-a-half page letter confessing to amorous episodes with between twenty to forty dead men. The letter was filled with remorse over her sexual desires: "Why do I do it? Why? Why? Fear of love, relationships. No romance ever hurt like this ... It's the pits. I'm a morgue rat. This is my rathole, perhaps my grave."' -- from 'The Unrepentant Necrophile' by Jim Morton
Read an interview with Greenlee here
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5 films
Nacho Cerda Aftermath (1994): 'It horrified audiences at Sitges in 1994. On its North American debut in 1997, it led some viewers to run shrieking from the theater. As recently as yesterday, people were denouncing it on Internet horror boards as the most depraved film ever made. Well, it's not the most depraved film ever made, although it is still considered transgressive. Even at the time, it had been preceded by Jorg Buttgereit's Nekromantik and Schramm, Agusti Villaronga's In a Glass Cage, Ray Brady's Boy Meets Girl, and similar shockers. So, if the film doesn't have a foothold as THE "fuck, dude, you gotta see this" shocker, where exactly does it fall artistically?' (cont.)
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Joe D'Amato Buio Omega (1979): 'It is hard to say which half of this film is more grotesque- Anna's autopsy and the corpse disposal scenes, or the relationship between Frank and Iris. For those unaccustomed to gore, it may be the former. While all the murders in this film are violent and gory themselves, it is the aftermath which D'Amato focuses on most lovingly. The scene I refer to as the "autopsy", where Frank prepares his wife's body for keeping, is over four minutes long , and little attention to detail is spared as the organs and the brains are removed and dropped into the slop bucket.' (cont.)
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Lynne Stopkewich Kissed (1997): 'Kissed is Vancouver-director Lynne Stopkewich's controversial first feature-film, an examination of a woman's rapturous exploration of necrophilia. Stopkewich first became fascinated with the subject matter after reading the short story "We So Seldom Look on Love" by Barbara Gowdy, and sought to adapt the story for the screen, using money saved from her 'day' job as a production designer (she has worked on such films as "The Michelle Apartments" and "The Grocer's Wife"). And what she ended up with was an interesting twist on the romance genre.' (cont.)
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Jorg Buttgereit Nekromantik (1987): 'Daktari Lorenz plays Rob: Works for Joe’s Street-Cleaning Agency (JSA), whose specific purpose is the disposal of dead bodies. This works well for Rob, because he kinda favors dead bodies; as a matter of fact, Rob has quite an extensive collection of body parts at home. He inevitably gets to bring home a whole specimen, much to the delight of his girlfriend, Betty. Together the three “get better acquainted.” But as we all know, these love triangles almost always end bitterly.' (cont.)
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Riccardo Freda The Horrible Secret of Dr. Hichcock (1962): 'Life after death is a primal theme in classic horror films, with revitalized monsters resuming life on laboratory tables and vampires rising from their graves. But one Italian period horror flick goes a bit beyond that and ventures into the subject of necrophilia...a tasteless topic even now and certainly so when this film was made. But it approaches the sleazy subject with surprising style and even manages to raise the question of... ' (cont.)
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Some literary examples:
Chuck Palahniuk Lullabye
Algernon Swinburne's poem 'The Leper'
Oscar Wilde's play 'Salome'
William Faulkner's story 'A Rose for Emily'
Christopher Moore Bloodsucking Fiends
The Marquis de Sade 120 Days of Sodom
Poppy Z. Brite Exquisite Corpse
Richard Brautigan Dreaming of Babylon
Holly Lisle The Secret Texts Trilogy
Bret Easton Ellis American Psycho
Sadat Hasan Manto's short story 'Cold Meat'
Charles Baudelaire's poem(s) 'Les fleurs du mal'
Guy de Maupassant's short stort 'The Head of Hair'
Georges Rodenbach Bruges Le Morte
Georges Bataille The Story of the Eye
Gabrielle Wittkop Le Necrophile
Barbara Gowdy's short story 'We So Seldom Look on Love'
Rachilde La tour d'amour
Toni Morrison Song of Solomon
Wikipedia's Examples of Necrophilia in Popular Culture
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Nacho Cerda Aftermath (1994): 'It horrified audiences at Sitges in 1994. On its North American debut in 1997, it led some viewers to run shrieking from the theater. As recently as yesterday, people were denouncing it on Internet horror boards as the most depraved film ever made. Well, it's not the most depraved film ever made, although it is still considered transgressive. Even at the time, it had been preceded by Jorg Buttgereit's Nekromantik and Schramm, Agusti Villaronga's In a Glass Cage, Ray Brady's Boy Meets Girl, and similar shockers. So, if the film doesn't have a foothold as THE "fuck, dude, you gotta see this" shocker, where exactly does it fall artistically?' (cont.)
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Joe D'Amato Buio Omega (1979): 'It is hard to say which half of this film is more grotesque- Anna's autopsy and the corpse disposal scenes, or the relationship between Frank and Iris. For those unaccustomed to gore, it may be the former. While all the murders in this film are violent and gory themselves, it is the aftermath which D'Amato focuses on most lovingly. The scene I refer to as the "autopsy", where Frank prepares his wife's body for keeping, is over four minutes long , and little attention to detail is spared as the organs and the brains are removed and dropped into the slop bucket.' (cont.)
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Lynne Stopkewich Kissed (1997): 'Kissed is Vancouver-director Lynne Stopkewich's controversial first feature-film, an examination of a woman's rapturous exploration of necrophilia. Stopkewich first became fascinated with the subject matter after reading the short story "We So Seldom Look on Love" by Barbara Gowdy, and sought to adapt the story for the screen, using money saved from her 'day' job as a production designer (she has worked on such films as "The Michelle Apartments" and "The Grocer's Wife"). And what she ended up with was an interesting twist on the romance genre.' (cont.)
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Jorg Buttgereit Nekromantik (1987): 'Daktari Lorenz plays Rob: Works for Joe’s Street-Cleaning Agency (JSA), whose specific purpose is the disposal of dead bodies. This works well for Rob, because he kinda favors dead bodies; as a matter of fact, Rob has quite an extensive collection of body parts at home. He inevitably gets to bring home a whole specimen, much to the delight of his girlfriend, Betty. Together the three “get better acquainted.” But as we all know, these love triangles almost always end bitterly.' (cont.)
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Riccardo Freda The Horrible Secret of Dr. Hichcock (1962): 'Life after death is a primal theme in classic horror films, with revitalized monsters resuming life on laboratory tables and vampires rising from their graves. But one Italian period horror flick goes a bit beyond that and ventures into the subject of necrophilia...a tasteless topic even now and certainly so when this film was made. But it approaches the sleazy subject with surprising style and even manages to raise the question of... ' (cont.)
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Some literary examples:
Chuck Palahniuk Lullabye
Algernon Swinburne's poem 'The Leper'
Oscar Wilde's play 'Salome'
William Faulkner's story 'A Rose for Emily'
Christopher Moore Bloodsucking Fiends
The Marquis de Sade 120 Days of Sodom
Poppy Z. Brite Exquisite Corpse
Richard Brautigan Dreaming of Babylon
Holly Lisle The Secret Texts Trilogy
Bret Easton Ellis American Psycho
Sadat Hasan Manto's short story 'Cold Meat'
Charles Baudelaire's poem(s) 'Les fleurs du mal'
Guy de Maupassant's short stort 'The Head of Hair'
Georges Rodenbach Bruges Le Morte
Georges Bataille The Story of the Eye
Gabrielle Wittkop Le Necrophile
Barbara Gowdy's short story 'We So Seldom Look on Love'
Rachilde La tour d'amour
Toni Morrison Song of Solomon
Wikipedia's Examples of Necrophilia in Popular Culture
6 comments:
I've never sexed a cadaver before unless dead drunk people count. Funny that boy from The Devil's Backbone being there. I watched del Toro's swell ghost story last night.
if and whenever i wake up with someone next to me in the morning, and they've died, i dont think it would be a crime to carry on..
ive kissed enough zombies to know its okay to sleep with the dead
dennis, Gorgoroth were cool, evil in a south park way, graal, the singer has been getting alot of bad vibes lately as he came out a few weeks ago
why did even bother coming out ?
who cares ?
love you, pink witch
Today's post is perfect. Every year, my former lover and I renew a contract we signed ten years ago granting us exclusive visiting rights for the first forty-eight hours after death. Although the first four to eight hours are vital, we agreed that forty-eight hours of privileged mourning would suffice. In the event that death is unplanned we had to take into consideration the logistics of travel as well as other legal concerns.
I'm masturbating.
Dennis, uh, one more question. I am certain that you have answered this question somewhere around here but I am sometimes late to these things. But, why did you decide to call Little Caesar, Little Caesar?
The question is not entirely unrelated to today's topic.
If you liked Barbara Steele in THDrH she reprises her role in The Ghost.
Does it still qualify as necrophilia if you have sex with a zombie, with them being undead and all?
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