ABSTRACT
Necrophilia is generally presumed to be rare.1 However, it has been argued that it may be more prevalent than statistics imply. Given that the act would be carried out in secret with a victim unable to complain, cases only come to light when the subject gets caught.2 Even among those, not all cases would be reported in medical journals or textbooks. e fact that Rosman and Resnick3 could compile 122 cases of necrophilia (88 from world literature and 34 unpublished case reports from colleagues) despite these drawbacks implies that necrophilia may be far more common than has been believed until now.
