Necrophilia

Mindfuck:

^I don't think necrophilia and pedophilia can be compared as being similar. Pedophilia, I feel, is a lot more heinous than necrophilia. Probably because I place - and I think society does too - a lot more worth and protection on children rather than dead people. Children are alive and are able to remember the illegal acts committed against them, and it can hurt them psychologically. You can't say the same for corpses.

I think we need to move away from comparing necrophilia to pedophilia, because they are two different paraphilias, and they are also different in the eyes of the law.

A necrophile and a pedophile might be similar in the sense they they fetishize a certain group - in a pedophile's case, children and in a necrophile's case, corpses - but I see one as being much more heinous than the other. If someone told me they were a necrophile, I'd probably think it was creepy. But if someone told me they were a pedophile, I'd probably disown them.

As odd as it sounds, that's all just your opinion and therefore cannot be regarded as entirely relevant, just because it is far from objective. It's irrelevant how distasteful the philia is; we are focused on the fact that a philia is a philia, and the sexual attraction is not illegal.

You are making the mistake that all pedophiles are individuals who have/would ever act upon their preferences; that all pedophiles are child molesters. I don't say this empathetically at all, but you have to move away from the assumption, because it skews definition, and definition is important here.

^I realise not all pedophiles are go and molest children... in fact, I think I mentioned that in the pedophilia thread some time ago. I just don't think necrophilia and pedophilia can be that comparable, because the social stigmas surrounding both paraphilias are different. If one is comparing them as paraphilias just on the fact that they are paraphilias, then yes, they are comparable. But I was talking about socially, subjectively.

Also, I don't really need someone telling me it's my opinion when I kind of already know that...

A lot of you are comparing necrophilia to other types of fetishes, and saying that they do not differ at all, technically speaking, no they do not.
But psychologically they do, you see, where necrophilia differs is that it crosses the line between life and death.

Someone with a foot fetish would see a dead body, and not look at the feet of the corpse and feel arousal, they would be too disturbed at the fact they are in the presence of a dead human being.
The same goes with many other types of fetishes. Necrophilia is harmless in the fact that the person with the fetish does not derive sexual satisfaction from the killing, but from the body itself.

Harmless or not, i find that necrophilia itself crosses a much less blurred line of fetishes, it crosses over into death, something that is deeply ingrained in every living thing to avoid, and naturally be detested, frightened, shocked and saddened by.

Most fetishes are harmless, and even if they aren't, it's usually consent, necrophilia isn't, I can comprehend that someone may be aroused by the thought of having sex with a corpse, but i cannot comprehend that same person not being at all deterred by the body of a human being.

merlin.:

Can I ask why we should be frightened or shocked by death?

It is deeply ingrained in us, if we weren't bothered by death, we wouldn't try so desperately hard to avoid it.

Death attracts predators, and spreads harmful disease and bacteria, if avoiding death was of no concern, the human brain would not find the smell of decomposing flesh so repulsive.
If we were supposed to be attracted to death, a rotting body might smell like sweet fruit, see where i'm going with this?

How we perceive death, and deal with death differs much geographically and culturally, but it is indisputable evolutionary fact that we all, as a species instinctively avoid death, and is this very reason we still exist today.

Necrophilia seems to bypass this, as does something like masochism, where the sexual urge is so strong, and has manifested itself so deeply into someone's psyche that instead of instinctively avoiding all types of pain, the brain redirects the pain to trigger arousal.

This is apparent even though a person may be fully aware of the fact they "should" be avoiding it. It is the same with anything connected to arousal, even killing, all serial killers do what they do because they are aroused by it, it overrides instinctual functions.

Simple and Clean:

It kinda disgusts me.
I don't get how you can get thrills out of it. I also think it's wrong, especially if it was someone close to you, like your boy/girlfrend husband/wife ect.

I also think so.