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Schwarzenegger Signs Bill Banning Sex with Corpses
Reuters ^ | 9-10-04

Posted on 09/10/2004 5:00:44 PM PDT by Indy Pendance

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.


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: arnold; arnoldlegacy; disorders; necrophilia; paraphilias; sexualorientation
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To: Centurion2000
Well, I'm surprised Cato hasn;t filed a brief demanding to know why consenting adults can't sleep with the corpse of their choice.
141 posted on 09/10/2004 9:00:39 PM PDT by radicalamericannationalist (The Convention convinced me. 4 MORE YEARS!!!!!!)
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To: Indy Pendance

How will they consummate the marriages then?


142 posted on 09/11/2004 1:42:56 AM PDT by BurbankKarl (.)
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To: Indy Pendance

The most notorious modern day necrophiliac was actually a woman in Cali. Karen Greenlee.
The "Weaker" Sex




Among funeral workers, there have been a few females who performed their own erotic rituals, and one of the most famous is Karen Greenlee. She didn't kill men to get the corpses, but she certainly had an attraction to them once they were dead.

In 1979 in California, Greenlee was to deliver the body of a 33-year-old man to a cemetery for a funeral, but instead she drove off in the hearse, abducting the corpse to keep for herself. She was found and charged with stealing a hearse and interfering with a funeral, and apparently it wasn't the first time she'd felt such a sexual attraction to the dead. Into this casket she had put a long letter that detailed her erotic episodes with what she estimated had been over 20 male corpses. Calling herself a "morgue rat," she didn't understand why she felt so compelled to touch dead bodies, but it was an addiction she couldn't seem to break.
http://www.crimelibrary.com/serial_killers/notorious/necrophiles/sex_3.html


143 posted on 09/11/2004 1:50:57 AM PDT by Selkie
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To: PJ-Comix; Karyn M. PhD
"You're probably asking, when are you going to hit bottom, Sam. Well, I read this story on gay necrophilliacs..."

I remember an author with a book on such matters. Art Bell's Show of course. Anyway, I remembered she did the bios of Rice and Koontz. So, looking that up:

Katherine M. Ramsland
Cemetery Stories: Haunted Graveyards, Embalming Secrets, and the Life of a Corpse after Death

The story that I recall is that there is a group of morticians that send out the call when a good-looking
corpse comes in to one of them. Yes, the receiving mortician throws a party for corpse and fellow devotees.

144 posted on 09/11/2004 2:04:09 AM PDT by Calvin Locke
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To: Calvin Locke

Yes, but can dead people still have sex with each other? We should go to Beverly Hills and find out.


145 posted on 09/11/2004 2:10:04 AM PDT by WestVirginiaRebel (Hillary is unavailable for comment. She's still trying to keep Bill away from the nurses.)
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To: WestVirginiaRebel
Yes, but can dead people still have sex with each other?

Probably. With help. And *a* male is in the right portion of the rigor mortis phase (I'm guessing at thist point)

Didn't France allow a dead couple to get married last month?

I can't sleep, so I have Lexx on. The *dead* Kai is with a trio of goth (or vampire) females.

146 posted on 09/11/2004 2:23:24 AM PDT by Calvin Locke
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To: Indy Pendance

This is a sad testimony to what a sick society we have become that a law like this has to even be considered.


147 posted on 09/11/2004 2:29:01 AM PDT by abigailsmybaby (I yam what I yam and that's all that I yam.)
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To: Indy Pendance
California is near bankruptcy, being overrun by Mexicans with impunity and the legislature/governor are in a food fight over necrophilia.

Obviously the two party system has lost its way in Californian.

148 posted on 09/11/2004 7:45:45 AM PDT by Amerigomag
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To: Indy Pendance

But can the corpses still vote ? That is the question.


149 posted on 09/11/2004 9:05:15 AM PDT by festus (The constitution may be flawed but its a whole lot better than what we have now.)
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To: TheLion
Man, they are really getting hard up out there in Calif. Suprised they have to pass a law to make this illegal.

You have to pass a law to make anything illegal.

150 posted on 09/11/2004 11:38:17 AM PDT by Slings and Arrows (Am Yisrael Chai!)
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To: Chad Fairbanks
This is about NECROphilia, not COProphilia...

Pardon me while I go throw up....

151 posted on 09/11/2004 12:35:36 PM PDT by stands2reason (Limousine Liberal--a man who has his cake, eats his cake, and complains that other people have cake.)
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To: Ancesthntr; All

I just want to know one thing...does this mean that corpses can still have sex with other corpses...(inquiring minds want to know)?


152 posted on 09/11/2004 12:46:21 PM PDT by mdmathis6 (The Democrats must be defeated in 2004)
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To: sweetliberty

"Sick enough to vote for THIS for president: "

Talk about a real "hose" job!


153 posted on 09/11/2004 12:48:42 PM PDT by mdmathis6 (The Democrats must be defeated in 2004)
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To: Slings and Arrows
"You have to pass a law to make anything illegal."

Not true. Ever heard of common law? Besides we're just poking fun here.

154 posted on 09/11/2004 2:01:52 PM PDT by TheLion
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