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Necrophilia

Pat Riley writes on RAME: "What's wrong with necrophilia? You're dead or the other party's dead. No feeling, no emotional distress, nothing. Can't personally see anything erotic but "different strokes for different folks".

"Snuff films? We have a version… They're called regular Hollywood adventure-action movies. Plenty of people get killed. Why is it so different if you're getting screwed at the time?

"…It's not your wife or daughter dead. The moment they died their body becomes a putrescent inanimate object, not a human being, not a person, a piece of disposable organic matter being consumed by maggots, bacteria and other disposers of the refuse of life. Unless of course you're an enviro-freak aiming to start a "Protect the Bacteria" group <g>. Not only do I not care if someone humps that rotting flesh that used to contain my wife, I don't care if "Butch" decides my ass might be just the thing (provided I'm really dead).

"It's strange that this topic creates so much heat. Most state laws treat the corpse as property devolving automatically to the next of kin without any special protection. (I say "most" but my information comes from the news articles at the time of Jeffrey Dahmer. Maybe you can find state or country laws which are different.) The laws regarding the dead are generally directed towards public health issues which might be something for your personal consideration if you got into necrophilia on a regular basis. Similarly on the religion front, Judaism emphasizes burial within a short time and Catholics that the soul has left the body on death although it's possible that so mere-incarnation group would think differently. Certainly the religions have a "respect for the dead" component but this seems a very weak basis for such a reaction. Notable necrophilia movies for those who might be wanting to give it ago:

Corruption 1983 VCA where Jamie Gillis screws a girl in a coffin.

Satin & Lace 1994 Wicked. Steven St. Croix plays a mortician who comes to collect suicide victim Lacy Rose and screws her. Unfortunately (depending on your viewpoint) she's not really dead and responds halfway through.

Belle De Jour 1967 where Catherine Deneuve plays a hooker who lies dead in a coffin imitating the male's dead sister (my memory is a little vague here...it's a simulated sex movie but I don't remember if he simulates screwing her.)

And for the really perverted:

Nekromantik #1 (1987) and #2 (1991) from Film Threat Video. These are two German movies which come very close to explicit (erect penises shown but no close ups of insertion) with excellent special effects, so good that one has a sneaking suspicion they are not really "special". The general idea is that a guy takes a job as an assistant mortician collecting corpses from road accidents and takes his work home. His girlfriend is also into this and when he's killed she exhumes the body and brings it home for continued "enjoyment". Includes cannibalism and things like swinging a cat in a garbage bag against the bathroom wall until there's blood oozing from the bag. Strangely these videos are available in almost every large video store I go to so there must be a reasonable demand."