ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the need for a more comprehensive exploration of the relationship between sexual behavior and the stimulus of death. Review of the literature are focused first on the inhibition of sexual activity and experience in response to death. A beginning continuum of sexual responses to death is offered and possible explanations for understanding these responses are explored. The dynamics of the inhibition of libido and sexual activity associated with the stimulus of death are clearly understood. The information here is useful in extending the awareness of the spectrum of sexual responses to death but it is anecdotal and therefore will figure in the continuum to be described below. The stimulus of the presence of death or the threat of death has been demonstrated to have an impact on some people's sexual experience and to evoke a sexual response in some but certainly not all people.
