Research Paper: Necrophilia: Is it more Common than most people think?
Ever thought about sleeping with the dead? Nowadays I would have never thought I or anyone else would think about it or even imagine. There are some cases that support such types of diagnoses that took place not only in the funeral home, but other people lives as well. Many people have asked why and how it happened whenever it comes to their attention and end up finding it too disturbing. The cases of necrophilia are very rare by experiencing denial behavior, romantic obsession, and sexual fetish.
Necrophilia has been typified as insane, mental lacking, the feeling of isolation, and resistless partner. Most cases of necrophilia happen around the age of 30 to 40 in fact “the mean age of necrophilia was 34” (Rosman 156). “The biggest study of necrophiliac behavior found 57% of all necrophiliac were employed in a profession that gave them access to dead …show more content…
According to Erich Fromm, he defines necrophilia as “the passion to transform that which is alive into something unalive, to destroy for the sake of destruction, the exclusive interest in all that is purely mechanical” (331). So to fulfill sexual desire with a dead body or having a sexual attraction to dead bodies it's genuine necrophilia. In this situation, it's mostly men that act on necrophilia when it comes to romantic obsession, but only 15% of all types of necrophilia are for individuals who admit it was for comfort or feel lonely (Rosman 159). One of the most bizarre diagnoses necrophilia is Carl Tanzler, a radiologic technologist who became obsessed with a Cuban-American woman name Elena Milagro who died from tuberculosis, devastated by her death Mr. Tanzler took Elena's body from the cemetery and preserved her body and practiced necrophilia for seven years, until confronted by Elena’s sister and authorities. Even a few
Ever thought about sleeping with the dead? Nowadays I would have never thought I or anyone else would think about it or even imagine. There are some cases that support such types of diagnoses that took place not only in the funeral home, but other people lives as well. Many people have asked why and how it happened whenever it comes to their attention and end up finding it too disturbing. The cases of necrophilia are very rare by experiencing denial behavior, romantic obsession, and sexual fetish.
Necrophilia has been typified as insane, mental lacking, the feeling of isolation, and resistless partner. Most cases of necrophilia happen around the age of 30 to 40 in fact “the mean age of necrophilia was 34” (Rosman 156). “The biggest study of necrophiliac behavior found 57% of all necrophiliac were employed in a profession that gave them access to dead …show more content…
According to Erich Fromm, he defines necrophilia as “the passion to transform that which is alive into something unalive, to destroy for the sake of destruction, the exclusive interest in all that is purely mechanical” (331). So to fulfill sexual desire with a dead body or having a sexual attraction to dead bodies it's genuine necrophilia. In this situation, it's mostly men that act on necrophilia when it comes to romantic obsession, but only 15% of all types of necrophilia are for individuals who admit it was for comfort or feel lonely (Rosman 159). One of the most bizarre diagnoses necrophilia is Carl Tanzler, a radiologic technologist who became obsessed with a Cuban-American woman name Elena Milagro who died from tuberculosis, devastated by her death Mr. Tanzler took Elena's body from the cemetery and preserved her body and practiced necrophilia for seven years, until confronted by Elena’s sister and authorities. Even a few