Kees Moeliker made an observation while sitting in his office at the Natural History Museum in Rotterdam when he heard a bird bang against the glass façade of the building. During the inspection, he discovered a Drake mallard (male) lying dead in front of the building. Next to the crushed bird stood a second Drake`s mallard nearby. As Moeliker looked at the couple, the living Drake pecked at the dead man`s body for a few minutes, then climbed on the body and began to copulate with him. The act of necrophilia lasted about 75 minutes, during which, according to Moeliker, the live Drake took two short breaks before being resumed with copulation behavior. Moeliker suspected that at the time of the collision with the window, the two mallards were involved in a common pattern of duck behavior called “attempted rape theft.” “When one died, the other went ahead and received no negative feedback — well, he received no feedback,” Moeliker says. [31] [32] Necrophilia has only been reported in heterosexual mallard couples. [31] www.masslive.com/politics/index.ssf/2015/08/aaron_vega_calls_for_necrophilia_law.html (below) There are eight states, including Nebraska, Kansas and Vermont, that do not have laws criminalizing necrophilia. Havelock Ellis, in his 1903 volume Studies of the Psychology of Sex, believed that necrophilia was related to algolagnia, as both involve the transformation of a perceived negative emotion such as anger, fear, disgust, or grief into sexual desire. [19] This may be an unpopular opinion, but it should not be illegal if the person has agreed to have their body used for this purpose before death. § 16, § 10 of the Swedish Penal Code criminalizes necrophilia, but is not explicitly mentioned. Necrophilia falls under the rules against misuse of a corpse or grave (Brott word griftefrid), which carry a maximum sentence of two years in prison. One person was convicted of necrophilia.

He was sentenced to psychiatric treatment for this and other crimes, including arson. [80] In Renaissance Italy, after the alleged moral collapse caused by the Black Death and before the Roman Inquisition of the Counter-Reformation, literature was full of sexual references; These include necrophilia, as in the epic poem Orlando Innamorato by Matteo Maria Boiardo, first published in 1483. [14] In a notorious modern example, American serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer was a necrophiliac. Dahmer wanted to create a sex slave who consented without thinking about what he wanted. If his attempts failed and his victim died, he would guard the corpse until it decomposed beyond recognition, constantly masturbated, and performed sex on the body. [15] To be aroused, he must murder his male victims before having sex with them. Dahmer said he only killed his victims because they wanted to leave after sex and they would be angry with him for drugging them. [16] Necrophilia, the sexual act or sexual contact with a corpse, is still technically legal in many US states.

In Massachusetts, a politician is trying to change that. States can interpret their laws broadly to prevent acts of necrophilia. Many states still do not have laws specifically prohibiting necrophilia. However, their law enforcement agencies often suggest that this is legislative oversight rather than a deliberate suggestion that it should be tolerated. In most cases, states that do not have laws against necrophilia tend to interpret other criminal laws in their books far enough to prohibit sex with corpses. A typical case occurred in Wisconsin, where there was no anti-necrophilia law in 2006, when a case challenged their courts. Two twin brothers and one of their friends had gone to a local cemetery to dig up the body of a 20-year-old girl who recently died in a motorcycle accident. One of the men had seen a photo of the girl printed with her obituary in the local newspaper. He asked the others to help him dig up the body so he could have sex with him. The three men went to the cemetery with shovels, a crowbar and a box of condoms they had bought that night on their way to the cemetery. They used shovels to reach the coffin in their grave, but eventually abandoned their plan and were captured by authorities. All were arrested on suspicion of digging up a woman`s body in order to have sex with him.

Since there were no laws against necrophilia per se, the Wisconsin District Attorney`s Office charged her with attempted third-degree sexual assault. The lower courts quashed the charges against them, finding that Wisconsin state law did not criminalize necrophilia, and they felt that calling their actions attempted “sexual assault” too stressful. As a result, prosecutors had to charge him with the much less serious crime of “attempted body theft.” The controversy extended all the way to the Wisconsin Supreme Court in State of Wisconsin v. Grunke.In a 5-2 decision, Wisconsin Supreme Court justices ruled that the original charges of attempted sexual assault against the defendants should be reinstated. They explained that people can still be charged with sexual assault even if their victims have died. The majority argued that Wisconsin`s law states that “anyone who has sexual intercourse with a person without that person`s consent is guilty of a crime.” In this case, the woman in question did not “consent” to any sexual act – which is why the law against sexual assault applies here. The court wrote: “The state has yet to prove beyond doubt the `without consent` element; This company is subject to simple proof if the victim is a corpse. [Prosecutors had argued that a different interpretation of the law would prevent them from laying sexual assault charges in cases where a rapist manages to kill his victim before sexually abusing her.] Two panel judges wrote a dissenting opinion, which stated in part: Necrophilia can almost always be classified as an unnatural act. Often it is associated with bestiality and other similar acts and is therefore regulated by the state.

It is an act that may be explicitly prohibited, but implicitly illegal. Among the most modern necrophiles are the Scottish serial killer Dennis Nilsen[17] and the Englishman David Fuller, considered the worst author of this kind in English legal history. [18] Necrophilia is punishable in several ways in the United States. Unlike the United Kingdom, which has an explicit and robust anti-necrophilia law under the Sexual Offences Act, the United States does not have such central legislation. A minority of states — including Arizona and Georgia — have explicit anti-necrophilia laws. These nuances partly explain why anti-necrophilia legislation is so complex. Other sources: www.huliq.com/34426/us-states-lack-laws-explicitly-outlawing-necrophilia Summary: Sex with a corpse is still legal in several states. A Massachusetts politician is trying to ban it. If I were a legislator who did not believe that necrophilia was really a big problem, and a colleague introduced laws that made it a crime, I would try to reduce it to an offence as well. I mean, sure, you can`t argue it`s legal and expect to be re-elected, but you do what you can. There is no evidence that necrophiles would not resort to killing living beings or even trying to have non-consensual sex with sentient beings.

Rape, sexual harassment, sodomy all form an umbrella of sexual offences that can lead to necrophilia or necrophilia. Murderous necrophiles are such a danger to society and its laws. The mere diversion of the living to the dead is incalculable and is therefore unnecessarily classified as a crime.