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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: Indy Pendance

"Well now, isn't that special?"


21 posted on 09/10/2004 5:06:24 PM PDT by Momaw Nadon (Goals for 2004: Re-elect President Bush, over 60 Republicans in the Senate, and a Republican House.)
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To: Indy Pendance
The new legislation marks the culmination of a two-year drive...

They debated this for two years? Was there a lobby against it?

22 posted on 09/10/2004 5:06:49 PM PDT by Shermy
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To: Indy Pendance

Don't worry. You can still marry a corpse in San Francisco.


23 posted on 09/10/2004 5:06:49 PM PDT by GSWarrior
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To: Indy Pendance

You can't have sex with ANY dead people?

Not even to entice them to vote for Democrats?

We're living in a freakin' police state, man.


24 posted on 09/10/2004 5:06:55 PM PDT by VisualizeSmallerGovernment (Question Liberal Authority)
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To: Indy Pendance

Is this from ScrappleFace? My jaw hurts; it just hit the floor. O-u-c-h!


25 posted on 09/10/2004 5:07:21 PM PDT by 7.62 x 51mm (• Veni • Vidi • Vino • Visa • "I came, I saw, I drank wine, I shopped")
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To: Indy Pendance

Bubba Clinton was discharged from the hospital. Ahnold is trying to stay ahead of the curve.


26 posted on 09/10/2004 5:07:29 PM PDT by TripsN1
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To: mhking

Against stiff opposition, the Gubinator signed the legislation and upset a lot of Chicago voters at the same time. ;-)


27 posted on 09/10/2004 5:07:43 PM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ...... The War on Terrorism is the ultimate 'faith-based' initiative ..... Sign up today!)
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To: Indy Pendance

"Schwarzenegger Signs Bill Banning Sex with Corpses"

Sorry, I think that's pretty funny.


28 posted on 09/10/2004 5:08:22 PM PDT by Michael Goldsberry (Which part of "Don't Mess With Texas" didn't you get?)
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To: Indy Pendance

This is bad news for Hugh Hefner.


29 posted on 09/10/2004 5:08:45 PM PDT by VisualizeSmallerGovernment (Question Liberal Authority)
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To: Indy Pendance
"Prosecutors didn't have anything to charge these people with other than breaking and entering."...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.

Sadly, it appears that California needs this law.

30 posted on 09/10/2004 5:09:02 PM PDT by Ronaldus Magnus
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To: Indy Pendance

Well Momma T is cut off now.


31 posted on 09/10/2004 5:09:04 PM PDT by Texasforever (Kerry's new slogan "IT'S NOT THE STUPID CANDIDATE SO STOP SAYING THAT")
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To: Indy Pendance

He's just trying to keep Mr. & Mrs. Kerry out of Cali.


32 posted on 09/10/2004 5:09:13 PM PDT by walford (http://utopia-unmasked.us)
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To: Indy Pendance

"Cold Ethel let me sqeeze you in my arms."

Alice Cooper back in the day.


33 posted on 09/10/2004 5:10:17 PM PDT by cripplecreek (The economy won't matter if you're dead.)
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To: Indy Pendance

This will just make the libs in Hollywood hate him more.


34 posted on 09/10/2004 5:10:32 PM PDT by TC Rider (The United States Constitution © 1791. All Rights Reserved.)
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To: Indy Pendance

Anyone prosecuted under this law should use the Clinton defense:

"Your Honor, while that corpse was having sex with me, I was not having sex with that corpse."


35 posted on 09/10/2004 5:10:33 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows (Am Yisrael Chai!)
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Fitting ,,, California, the home of the Grateful Dead


36 posted on 09/10/2004 5:10:57 PM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ...... The War on Terrorism is the ultimate 'faith-based' initiative ..... Sign up today!)
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To: vikingchick

California: At the forefront of all new laws! LOL!


37 posted on 09/10/2004 5:11:19 PM PDT by BossLady (John Kerry has more dollars than sense.....)
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To: Indy Pendance

I thought this was a joke until I linked to the reuters website. I don't have any of my usual funny comments about this. This is just too creepy.


38 posted on 09/10/2004 5:11:19 PM PDT by orangelobster
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To: Indy Pendance

once again, procrastination doesnt work out.


39 posted on 09/10/2004 5:11:28 PM PDT by beebuster2000 (while we're sleepin some one else is creepin)
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Over at DU, they are flipping out over this.

"Just another GOP step towards police state" They say.
Demonstrators from DU plan a massive rally in from of "Ahnolds" house.
A prostest sign reads " Keep Bush out of our sex lives".

/ Sarc off


40 posted on 09/10/2004 5:12:09 PM PDT by Nathan Zachary
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