You can't do that in California

[ChibiHorsewoman]

[color=darkviolet][b]SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Having sex with corpses is now officially illegal in California after Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed a bill barring necrophilia, a spokeswoman said on Friday.

The new legislation marks the culmination of a two-year drive to outlaw necrophilia in the state and will help prosecutors who have been stymied by the lack of an official ban on the practice, according to experts.

"Nobody knows the full extent of the problem. ... But a handful of instances over the past decade is frequent enough to have a bill concerning it," said Tyler Ochoa, a professor at Santa Clara University School of Law who has studied California cases involving allegations of necrophilia.

"Prosecutors didn't have anything to charge these people with other than breaking and entering. But if they worked in a mortuary in the first place, prosecutors couldn't even charge them with that," Ochoa said.

The state's first attempt to outlaw necrophilia, in response to a case of a man charged with having sex with the corpse of a 4-year-old girl in Southern California, stalled last year in a legislative committee.

Lawmakers revived the bill this year after an unsuccessful prosecution of a man found in a San Francisco funeral home drunk and passed out on top of an elderly woman's corpse.

The new law makes sex with a corpse a felony punishable by up to eight years in prison. [/b]

Now my first question is: why the hell would you want to do that in the first place? Eww.

Necrophilia? How bad does your social life have to be before you decide to go out looking for dead bodies? Shouldn't you try an escort service first?

I guess I have no real comments on this whole article except for the question, why was it necessary to make something liek this into a law? Does anyone else want to give it a go?[/color]

[Ben]

I'd think it would be rather obvious why to make this into a law. O-o It's a repugnant practice, and many people (yourself included, I do presume) find it so.

As opposed to just leaving it as an "unwritten" sort of rule; well, the article stated that several people got away with it simply because there [i]was[/i] no law against it. I'd imagine that's why they made it into a law; so people couldn't do it anymore. That's generally what laws prohibiting things do; they tell people to stop doing them.

[Sol-Blade]

I've heard some ridiculous things before. But that...that takes the gold. It must have been pretty bad (Not like it wasn't in the first place) if they were breaking and entering morgues. That is just wrong, on so many levels. I mean was it really that big of a problem to warrant a bill? Damn...

Other than that, I really feel no need to comment on the "practice" of necrophila at all. Now that it has a "Set of Guidelines" for it, that just makes it all the worse. 8 years for sex with a corpse? That's the most idiotic charge i've ever heard...but necessary I guess.

[Doukeshi]

Some people find that having sex with the dead body of a person allows them to become privy to the secrets of the departed soul of the corpse. I think mainly though, its for people with a death fetish, for those who are aroused by the thought of death and the erotic fantasies surrounding that.

Maybe its related to the ertocism surrounding vampires and the alure of the undead. Or maybe its just because a corpse doesn't ***** at you when you're a little rough, or when you don't call after that one night stand ^_~.

[poo62.2]

Necrophilia is just wrong and hidious.Being a necrophile (I think that might be the word) is the classic trade mark for being a sad lonely looser, who are so sad they don?t get themselves a nice "alive" person.

Can't we send all the necrophiles to a big island so they all kill each other, one way or another, Wont the problem be solved?

[BlueYoshi]

I think paedophilia is a cause for concern these days, far more than necrophilia. I mean, it's an act that destroys and torments lives. At least with necrophilia no one gets hurt, because these people are probably just messed up in the head, anyways. Counselling or probation would be a better [i]solution[/i], I think.

[Gavin]

[SIZE=1]Well this is...interesting.

As a Law I think it is nothing short of incredible that it hadn't been introduced already I mean for Christ's sake it just boggles the mind that if such a crime is committed there should be a way to punish the person who committed such an act. Fair play to the Governator for finally introducing it into law.

I partially agree with Wingnut in regard to the fact that Necrophiliacs would certainly require serious psychiatric therapy, however I would put forward that the family of the deceased would certainly be hurt by the act. Maybe the person who committed the act was deranged but that shouldn't mean they don't face a punishment for such an act of... indecency.[/SIZE]

[Godelsensei]

[COLOR=Gray][FONT=Courier New]Well this is the last topic I was expecting to pop up. xD

Necrophillia is nasty.

However, as it's been brought up before, no one physically gets hurt by it, so I think it should be treated more along the lines of mischief. However, it is obviously more serious than spray-painting a wall, as it shows a disregard for the dead who were once active, (hopefully) productive members of society.

We owe it to people to ensure they wont be raped once they kick the bucket.

I think a (relatively) short jail sentence based on the fact that you're desicrating a human corpse and causing emotional trauma to its relatives should be given, along with (obviously) counseling.[/FONT][/COLOR]

[Guest Midnight Rush]

[QUOTE=doukeshi03]Some people find that having sex with the dead body of a person allows them to become privy to the secrets of the departed soul of the corpse. I think mainly though, its for people with a death fetish, for those who are aroused by the thought of death and the erotic fantasies surrounding that.

Maybe its related to the ertocism surrounding vampires and the alure of the undead. Or maybe its just because a corpse doesn't ***** at you when you're a little rough, or when you don't call after that one night stand ^_~.[/QUOTE]


What the **** did you just say...? I'm not that "smart" apparently. I'd rather do myself than something dead... surely these people know how to contact "courtesans"....?

[ChibiHorsewoman]

[quote name='doukeshi03'] Or maybe its just because a corpse doesn't ***** at you when you're a little rough, or when you don't call after that one night stand ^_~.[/quote]

[color=darkviolet]Well, I don't know about that, the corps coululd contact you via Ouji board and hand your *** to you there for not calling back after you had such a memorable night together. Not very likely, but ya know

I think the whole practice is a bit disgusting, but I still stick by the opinion of what happens in your bedroom stays in your bedroom. Especially if you're sleeping with dead people in your bedroom.

I'm kind of surprised that I'm getting some replies to this topic. I didn't think anyone would really care to comment on it.[/color]

[Godelsensei]

[COLOR=Gray][FONT=Courier New]Yeah, but it's hard to get consent from a dead person when it comes to such matters.

Unless they write, "**** me when I'm gone," in their will, it's not acceptable.[/FONT][/COLOR]

[wiccansamurai]

Anyone who said these people should get a small sentence: Think of someone close to you. If this person were to die, god forbid, would you want to find out from the police someone defiled their body? Gosh, after they mentioned the four year old, I mean that's just terrible. I'd hate to be her parents, they mucst be VERY angry. And sad.

That's my two cents, anyway.

[DeathBug]

[color=indigo][font=comic sans ms]So, there's something you're not allowed to do in California? How long before the Necrofilia activists groups take this to the California Supreme Court?

I think necrofilia should be treated the same way as seriel rape, so that we get that freakazoid off the streets, but also get them some help. Granted, I'm not all that convinced there's enough sane people in CA to go around, but it's a start. I also think that any penalties you would have recieved for raping that person alive should be accrued while they're dead. THat total pervert who raped a four-year old's corpse should be charged with pedophilia as well.

And because someone mentioned it, yes, pedophilia is a far more important matter that necrophilia, partly because there are actually pro-pedophilia movements. If the existance of pro-pedophilia movements doesn't show you where we're going and why we're in this handbasket, nothing will.[/color][/font]