Necrophilia: Is womenÂ’s chastity leading some lustful men to

[Daanyeer]

Necrophilia: Is womenÂ’s chastity leading some lustful men to desperation?

Source: mensdaily
September 28, 2006
Vox Populi
By Denise Noe


A Wisconsin judge recently dismissed sexual assault charges against twins 20-year-old twins Nicholas and Alexander Grunke, and 20-year-old Dustin Radke who were arrested on September 2, 2006 after they allegedly tried to dig up the corpse of a 20-year-old women in order to have sex with the remains. Sexual assault charges were dismissed because Wisconsin has no specific statute criminalizing necrophilia. However, the three will still be prosecuted for criminal damage to property as well as the alleged attempt to break into a burial vault.

The dead woman had been killed in a motorcycle accident on August 27. An Associated Press article on the case wrote, “Authorities said the three were not acquainted with the woman but had seen an obituary with her photo.”

When I first mentioned this on a newsgroup, I idly wondered if the Grunke brothers and Radke were continuing the “Wisconsin tradition” of their infamous fellow Wisconsinites Ed Gein (the model for “Psycho”) and Jeffrey Dahmer. An indignant Wisconsin resident rightly remonstrated with me since the vast majority of those living in that fine state have no amorous designs on their dead.

Although IÂ’ve never visited Wisconsin, I tend to associate the state with positive attributes. I donÂ’t drink milk but have a great fondness for cheese so owe a debt of gratitude to Wisconsin. Additionally, IÂ’ve read that Madison, Wisconsin boasts an outstanding public transit system, something I especially appreciate as a non-driver. Finally, it is the state in which two very dear friends of mine live.

Perhaps this incident actually tells us something positive about the state in which it may have occurred. It could be that the message of “Just Say No” has gotten through well to the young ladies of Wisconsin making it more difficult for at least some men (not men in general) to find sexual partners. Could the chastity of Wisconsin womanhood have led some of its lustier young men into a grave situation?

Also, could the alleged attempted turning of these men to a corpse for sexual gratification indicate that the sophisticated and alert farmers of the state often called “America’s Dairyland” are keeping a closer eye on their cows?

Coincidentally, or perhaps not-so-coincidentally, a man in Sweden has recently been accused of taking a woman’s corpse from a coffin to perform sex acts on her. He allegedly did this on August 3, a month before our three Wisconsinites are said to have taken a trip to a cemetery. This 43-year-old man is a church warden and has been charged with “disturbing the peace of the dead.” He has supposedly confessed to both this necrophilia and previous sex with another female corpse and explained his actions by saying he is unable to meet women.

The explanation that he turned to necrophilia because of an inability to get laid among the living is a point to give one pause since he lives in Sweden, a country known for its liberal sexual attitudes and the sexual emancipation of its women. However, as this writer has previously pointed out, the costs and benefits of partnered sex are unequally distributed between the genders so that even in the Scandinavian nations women are less eager for sexual partners than men as can be seen by the truth that prostitutes of both genders continue to serve a male clientele. Perhaps the experience of this church warden points to a tightening of sexual morals among SwedenÂ’s liberated ladies.

Of course, even discussing necrophilia leads us the question of whether or not this practice should be prohibited. National Review recently published an essay by Anthony Daniels entitled “Polygamy Ascendant?” in which Daniels argues that necrophiliacs have a case for asserting their “rights” since “the object of their affections cannot complain or have its interests damaged for by definition it can have no feelings or interests, and as John Stuart Mill so powerfully argued, the mere disgust of the majority, be it ever so large, is not a good enough reason to prohibit a practice.” In a previous National Review issue, its editors pointed out that, if offenses must have victims, necrophilia should qualify as a “harmless pastime.”

In turn we are led to another question: if men (and perhaps women) wishing to have sex with corpses happens to become popular, should we tighten security around cemeteries and mortuaries or charge admission to them?

[Ashlee]

disgusting.