ABSTRACT

Necrophilia, sexual gratication by having sex with the dead, is one of the weirdest, most bizarre, and revolting practices of abnormal and perverse sensuality. Also known as necrophilism, necrolagnia, necrocoitus, necrochlesis, and thanatophilia, it may be seen alone or in association with other paraphilias, namely sadism, cannibalism, vampirism (the practice of drinking blood from a person or animal), necrophagia (eating the esh of the dead), necropedophilia (sexual attraction to the corpses of children), and necrozoophilia (sexual attraction to the corpses of or killings of animals-also known as necrobestiality).