- Necrophilia is an erotic attraction to corpses, with the most common motive cited by psychologists as the attempt to gain possession of an unresisting or non-rejecting partner.
- According to Dr. Jonathan Rosman and Dr. Phillip Resnick, there are three basic types of “true” necrophilia: Necrophilic homicide, which is murder to obtain a corpse; Regular necrophilia, the use of corpses already dead for sexual pleasure; and Necrophilic fantasy, envisioning the acts but not acting on them.
- Those who never touch the dead but find sexual gratification merely from looking at them are labeled “platonic necrophilisists.”
- The lust killer who also engages in sexual activities with a corpse is not generally considered a true necrophile, R. E. L Masters, former director of the Library of Sex Research, claims (although other criminologists differ with the opinion). He says that such sexual violation is only an extension of what the lust murderer will do as part of the overall crime. A true necrophile is only interested in the corpse, not the living person. If he kills, it’s only to get a corpse.
- History offers several singular accounts of such activity, including the fear that ancient Egyptians expressed that embalmers would violate their deceased wives, so they kept them home until decomposition was clearly evident. One legend states that King Herod killed his wife and then had sex with her for seven more years.
- Supposedly (if one can judge such a secret activity), necrophiles are primarily male (about 90%), but one female apprentice embalmer claimed that during the first four months of her employment, she had sex with a number of corpses. She admitted that she could not achieve satisfaction with the living, in part because she had been molested once and later raped. She could express herself to corpses without fear. While she did not engage in penile penetration, another female mortician did, and she managed it by devising a pump that fit under the skin of the penis.
- Contrary to common belief, say Rosman and Resnick, most necrophiles are heterosexual, although about half of the known necrophiles who have killed were gay. In only about 60% is there a diagnosed personality disorder, with 10% being psychotic.
- The most common occupations through which necrophiles in their study came across corpses include hospital orderly, morgue attendant, funeral parlor assistant, cleric, cemetery employee, and soldier—although the majority of people thus employed are {not} tempted to violate a corpse.
(Source: trutv.com)
