Life Imitates Horror: Or a Necrophiliac’s Worst Nightmare.

Posted by Ms Harker | Filed under Life imitates Horror

I experienced some macabre serendipity a few days ago. I was reading one of my favourite horror blogs ‘And Now the Screaming Starts’ where the erudite CRWMN had posted an article from the ‘Journal of Forensic and Legal Medicine’  detailing a system of categorisation that one Professor Anil Aargwal has developed for various types of Necrophiliac’s. Having a twisted interest in most things psychiatry I proceeded to have a look through the article and found some interesting examples of corpse grinding behaviour. Coincidentally in the local Melbourne broadsheet ‘The Age’ the following story was published:

Body refuses to go pale, family asks for death opinion

August 27, 2009

Relatives of a dead man in Spain asked a doctor to confirm his death a second time because his body showed no signs of going pale hours after he passed away, local officials say.

The 70-year-old died of a heart attack and his body was on display at a funeral home in Lorca, a city of some 90,000 people in southern Spain, when his family noticed that it still had a healthy pink glow, a spokesman for the funeral home said on Wednesday.

They then called in the doctor to confirm that their loved one was in fact dead. The doctor concluded that the man still had a healthy glow, despite having passed away, because the pacemaker he was wearing was still running.

Which caused me to reflect on any poor Spanish signor or signorina (let’s not be sexist) who was innocently looking for a little ‘amor del morte’ and whilst eagerly anticipating the dalliance, inhaling the eua de embalming fluid with heady arousal,  clammy hands pulling back the crisp white sheet only to find their midnight love cadaver in fact looked more like a *gasp*… BREATHER!

Now don’t think you fangbangers escape the scientific gaze of the good professor, apparently you too fall into his continuum of Necro’s. You come under Class One Necrophiliacs: role player:

“These people are only mildly pathological, since they seem to enjoy a kind of role playing. They do not have sex with a dead body, but get intense arousal from having sex with a living person pre- tending to be dead. It is a kind of sexual role play… Sometimes a vampire fantasy is involved where the lover sim-ulates a killing by biting the neck. A case is recorded of a woman, who imagined herself to be a vampire. She would ask her husband to pretend he was dead and then stimulate his organ with her mouth. She would then pretend that the resulting erection was rigor mortis, and this would give her erotic pleasure.” (p317)

So next time you are wandering past your local morgue, mortuary or funeral parlour. Spare a thought for those amongst us who are carnally challenged, reflect on your last True Blood fantasy of Bill or Eric and maybe, just maybe we can share a little understanding… Or not!

Ms Harker

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Permalink | September 3rd, 2009

4 Responses to “Life Imitates Horror: Or a Necrophiliac’s Worst Nightmare.”

  1. crwm Says:
    September 4th, 2009 at 4:55 am

    Excellent way to tie in the good professor’s categories.

  2. Cortez the Killer Says:
    September 4th, 2009 at 8:16 am

    Holy LOL. You did some research lady. .

  3. Ms Harker Says:
    September 4th, 2009 at 6:29 pm

    I try my best!

  4. Ms Harker Says:
    September 4th, 2009 at 6:29 pm

    Thank you CRWMN for the article, it was fascinating!

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