Necrophilia, also known as necrophilism, necrocoitus, and thanatophilia, is sexual attraction towards or a sexual act involving corpses. Dabblers have transitory sexual relations with corpses, while cannibals and vampires are sexually aroused by eating human body parts. Exclusive necophiles derive purely pleasure from mutilating the corpse, while sexual cannibalates derive purely frommutilating their victims.
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Necrophilia, also known as necrophilism, necrocoitus, and thanatophilia, is sexual attraction towards or a sexual act involving corpses. The plural term was coined by Belgian physician Joseph Guislain in his lecture series, Leçons Orales Sur Les Phrénopathies, given around 1850. In a notorious modern example, American serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer was a necrophiliac. Dahmer wanted to create a sex slave who would mindlessly consent to whatever he wanted. He would keep the corpse until it decomposed beyond recognition, continuously masturbating and performing sexual intercourse on the body. To be aroused, he had to murder his male victims before performing sex intercourse with them. Necrophilia is often assumed to be rare, but no data exists for its prevalence in the general population. A ten-tier classification of necrophilia exists: Dabblers have transitory sexual relations with corpses, while cannibals and vampires are sexually aroused by eating human body parts. Category A, A, C and F offenders may also drink the blood of their victims or cannibalise them. Category B, B, C, D, F and C offenders commit postmortem acts only while in a sudden impulsive state Exclusive necophiles derive purely pleasure from mutilating the corpse, while sexual cannibalates derive purely frommutilating their victims. Category D, D and D offenders commit sex acts while in an impulsive and destructive state. Category C, A and A, F offenders commit sexual acts while impulsive, while C, F, and A offenders commit necrophilic sex acts on their victims, but do not prefer them.
category D, B and C, which adds an additional four categories to which Mellor’s typology of homicidal necoracs consists of eight categories. Category F, which is based on the combination of two behavioural axes – preservative, warm and cold – renders axes of destructive and cold renders axes of cold and warm – axes of destructive and warm. Category G, which consists of the combination: preservative, warm and preservative – and four categories of opportunistic necor Criminologist Lee Mellor’s typology consists of four categories – warm, cold, preservative and opportunistic – renders axes of destructive and cold. Category H, which includes the category ‘cannibal,’ consists of two behaviour axes – warm and preservative – as well as ‘predator’ and ‘suspect’ – which adds four additional categories to the typology. The term ‘nécrophiles’ was popularised by psychiatrist Bénédict Morel when discussing the case of Sergeant Bertrand. In the ancient world, sailors returning corpses to their home country were often accused of necophilia. In Renaissance Italy, following the reputed moral collapse brought about by the Black Death and before the Roman Inquisition of the Counter-Reformation, literature was replete with sexual references; these include necrophiles.
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