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#What is necrophilia
Incidents of necrophilia are noted to have occurred throughout history. Greek author Herodotus (c.484–425 BC) stated in his Histories that in Ancient Egypt, bodies of exceptionally beautiful women were not embalmed immediately after their deaths, but only after several days had passed, in order to prevent a recurrence of a case where it was discovered that an embalmer had sex with the body of a recently dead woman.
According to the Babylonian Talmud (3rd–5th centuries AD), King Herod of Judea (73/74 BC – 4 BC) desired a certain maiden and, after she killed herself to avoid marrying him, preserved her body in honey for seven years. Some say that he embalmed her in order to have intercourse with her; others say that he did not have intercourse with her.Roman-Jewish historian Flavius Josephus (37 – c. 100 AD), whose works are the main source for Herod's life and character, says nothing about any necrophilia on his part.
Remains of pottery from the Moche civilization represent dead skeletal figures engaged in sexual intercourse with living humans.
Roger Dymock accused the Lollards of having committed necrophilia.Gilles de Rais is noted to have sexually violated the dead bodies of his victims.
According to criminologist Herschel Prins, it was said that until the 19th century, if a betrothed girl in Central Europe died before her marriage day, the spouse could still carry out the ceremony by copulating with the body.
#In military conflicts
In the 19th-century Russo-Turkish war, military forces sexually abused dead bodies.
During the Moroccan War of 1919–1926, necrophilia was committed by the Moroccan troops.
A Chinese man was killed by the Japanese during the Nanjing Massacre, after he refused to have sex with dead women.
The Dirlewanger Brigade sexually violated corpses of Polish women and girls they killed during the Warsaw Uprising and Wola Massacre[citation needed.
During the Rwandan genocide, sex with dead bodies was reported.
Arthur Shawcross, an American serial killer from Rochester, New York, had also practiced necrophilia. Shawcross (also known as the Genesee River Killer) was convicted of 11 murders in November 1990. He claimed to have killed, raped, decapitated, and eaten two Vietcong women during a tour of Vietnam with the 4th Supply and Transport Company of the 4th Infantry Division in 1968, during the Vietnam War. He reportedly also committed necrophilic sexual acts and mutilations on his victims in Rochester between 1988 and 1989. All but one were prostitutes from the area. Shawcross received two separate life sentences in Monroe County, NY and Wayne County, NY respectively.
#List of necrophiles
1 . Sir John Pryce - 18th century Welsh baronet who had two deceased wives embalmed, and kept them either side of his bed. Upon the death of his third wife, Pryce invited faith healer Bridget Bostock to resurrect her but was unsuccessful .
2. Sergeant François Reece Bertrand (1823–1878) – Nicknamed the "Vampire of Montparnasse", was a sergeant in the French Army. Convicted of necrophilia, he was sentenced to 1 year in jail.
3. Victor Ardisson (1872–1944) – Nicknamed the "Vampire of Muy", Ardisson was a French graverobber and necrophiliac,who had sex with over 100 corpses.
4. Henri James Blot – Indulged his necrophiliac improprieties on a number of disinterred corpses, including a ballet dancer whom he dug up at Saint-Ouen in 1886, after which he was arrested. During his trial, he said that "Every man to his taste. Mine is for corpses."
5. Carl Tanzler (1877–1952) – A German-born radiology technologist at the Marine-Hospital Service in Key West, Florida. He developed an obsession for a young Cuban-American tuberculosis patient, Elena "Helen" Milagro de Hoyos (July 31, 1909 – October 25, 1931), that carried on well after the disease had caused her death. In 1933, almost two years after her death, Tanzler removed Hoyos' body from its tomb, and lived with the corpse at his home for seven years until its discovery by Hoyos' relatives and authorities in 1940.
5. Andrei Barausov (b. 1961) - rapist who murdered seven underage girls in Sakha from 1983 to 1997, having sex with the corpses of his last two victims after killing them.