EMCELL V TUMAMPO

STEM 11-B

Is Necrophilia Accepted in the Community?

According to the dictionary necrophilia is the sexual attraction or

sexual act which involves corpses. It is also described as the obsession with usually
erotic interest in or stimulation by courses. In the history, this practice is already
present within the Ancient Egypt. And in order to discourage the sexual intercourse with
the corpse according to the writings of Herodotus The Histories , they will left a
deceased beautiful women to decompose for “three or four days” before the corpse to
be given into the embalmers. He also employed a metaphor to the Greek tyrant
Periander that had defiled the corpse of his wife , “Periander baked his bread in a cold
oven.”
Nowadays necrophilia is also wide spread. According to Journal of
forensic sciences 55 (2), 443-446, 2010 there is a closed case-file review of 211 sexual
homicides identified 16 cases of necrophilia. Many countries regulates the case of this
necrophilia. In Australia necrophilia is not explicitly mentioned in the Australian law, but
it is under the Crimes Act 1900 – Sect 81C that states misconduct with regard to corpse
is any person who have interaction esp. in sexual. In United Kingdom sexual intercourse
with the corpse was made illegal under the Sexual Offenses Act 2003, that can
sentence a maximum of 2 years of imprisonment. Prior to this, necrophilia was not
illegal; however, if you exposed the body of the corpse naked in public it was classed as
a public nuisance (Rv. Clark [1883] 15 Cox 171). But in United States there is no federal
legislations about having a sex with a corpse. Multiple states have their own laws. And
And according to UDHR we have this rights even if we cannot stand it up for ourselves
like when we are dead.
Having a sex with a corpse is prohibited as it is based on the histories that
have been recorded, proving that necrophilia is illegal and discouraged. And it is also
violates the human rights of a person even if it is dead. The dead can’t bring claims, but
the living people can bring it of course on their behalf, for them to be protected and for
them to be treated the same and experience the equality.