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necrophilia /nec·ro·phil·ia/ (nek″ro-fil´e-ah) sexual attraction to or sexual contact with dead bodies.
necrophilia [nek′rōfil′yə] Etymology: Gk, nekros + philein, to love 1 a morbid liking for being with dead bodies. 2 a morbid desire to have sexual contact with a dead body, usually of men to perform a sexual act with a dead woman. necrophile, necrophiliac, n. Necrophilia Sexuoeroticism that hinges on fantasies about or actual sexual interactions with a corpse; the fantasies, sexual urges, or behaviours cause clinically significant distress or impairment in social, occupational, or other important areas of functioning necrophilia [nek″ro-fil´e-ah] sexual attraction to or sexual contact with dead bodies.
necrophilia Psychiatry A paraphilia in which sexuoerotism requires a corpse, which may involve engaging in sexual activity with same; the fantasies, sexual urges, or behaviors cause clinically significant distress or impairment in
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-philia -philous necro- necromania necrophilic necrophilous paraphilia Paraphilia Not Otherwise Specified Vampire Syndrome Vampirism | Gram Parsons/``Another Side of This Life'' (Sundazed) It's been a banner year for Parsons necrophiliacs, what with caches of unrecorded lyrics found and finally set to music and dozens of acts (see Psychedelic Cowboys, elsewhere on this page) inspired by the lost father of country rock riding onto the Americana scene. And if a necrophiliac professor of romance languages, let us say, should decide to cash in on the present vogue for confessional exhibitionism (there have always been necrophiliacs, after all, and isn't it time we all grew up and acknowledged it? Thus do later Radical Feminist thinkers such as Mary Daly, Susan Griffin, Andrea Dworkin and Catharine MacKinnon advocate a worldview that tends to see men as monsters, necrophiliacs, rapists, torturers and women-haters. |
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