Since I apparently caused such a ruckus at the Happy Hour, let me explain my thoughts on necrophilia.
1) I think it’s gross. I’ve never done it. I would never want to do it. I wouldn’t do it.
2) I think that if somebody wants to do it, they should be able to as long as
a) the necrophile has express written permission from the deceased
and/or
b) the deceased has offered their body for necrophilia a la organ donation.
That second part is what I was leaving off of the discussion at happy hour (partly to play the devil’s advocate).
What this really comes down to, for me, is for 2 consenting adults to do what they want to do with each other, combined with the need for people to write a will. Nobody should have any say as to what anyone does with your body when you’re alive, and only you should have any say as to what happens to your body when you’re dead. If you want to be an organ donor- great. If you want to donate your body intact to med students- bully for you. If you want to sell your body to the highest bidder- that’s capitalism. If you get your jollies off knowing someone else is getting their jollies off sexing you up when you’re gone and you decide to put that in your will so that they can do it- it should be allowed.
If nothing else it’ll help stem the the psychologically destructive crime of non-consensual necrophilia. (I’m not kidding.)
If you’re the type of person who argues for same-sex folks to be left alone to do with their genitalia what they please, or if you’re the type of person who thinks that Terri Schiavo had a right to die, then you must consider consensual necrophilia, however creepy, as something that people should be able to do if they want to.
