Friday, July 27, 2007

Necrophiliatic Scumbags and the System that Allows Them

Let me ask you a quick question. Would you consider necrobeastiality immoral? If you know the word (it means to have sex with dead animals) then I hope you just answered yes and I’d be inclined to agree with you. Even though we consider it immoral it should be noted that it is not necesarily illegal.
Now I’m not exactly sure that sex with dead animals is alright under Wisconsin Law, but sex with dead humans sure is according to a recent ruling by Grant County Circuit Judge George Curry.
The case involves three men who were apprehended attempting to dig up the body of a woman killed in a motorcycle accident. They had seen an obituary picture and had, for some reason, concocted a plan to dig her up and violate her corpse.
A provision of the Wisconsin sexual assault law applies penalties regardless of the victim being alive or dead. However, under Curry’s interpretation this is meant to be applied only in cases of a rape-murder or murder-rape.
Quite simply this means that the three men will only be charged with misdemeanor attempted theft for trying to take the woman’s body. Is grave robbing really a misdemeanor?
Now normally, I would be against government interference on morality based issues especially in matters of sexual prediliction, but this goes beyond the bar of acceptable.
What two or more consenting adults do in the privacy of their own home (or in the woods when no one is around) is there own business, but when a person (or three) take to grave robbing to have relations with a corpse that they thought looked attractive in an obituary photo that may be when a common decency law needs to be brought into play.
In the first place, there is no way for a corpse to be a consenting party, unless the empty wrapper of flesh that was once a human being was given in a last will and testament to be used for that specific purpose.
I furthermore take issue with the burying of bodies that have been pumped full of formaldehyde. This process is gross, inhumane and without regard for the perfectly natural process of biological decomposition. If a sanitary method of disposal needs to be had, rather than allowing corpses to break down in the earth, then I would put forward cremation as the best method. Not only would this take care of sanitation concerns and save on land space, but it would completely deny access to those disturbed individuals who consider graverobbing and necrophilia (having sex with the dead without the added animal angle) to be a well spent evening.
Not only that, but think of the savings to families that won’t have to pay for a burial plot or a casket. A modest place in a cemetery can cost up to and beyond $3,000 with a casket running anywhere from $500 to $10,000.
Both sex and death are as natural a part of life as breathing. But when the two are put together they paint a sickening picture of the sickening depths to which societal graces in America are falling.
There will always be disturbed individuals who attempt to get away with such things, but it is galling when the legal system sees fit to sit by and allow it.

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