Thus the 'guts' of our disagreement on this issue can't even really be explored within the topic of this thread. VivisektВ wrote:As for my agreement or disagreement with enLight's overall position: I would be inclined to reject it because its premises are a derivative of an arbitrary social philosophy proceeding to debate this disagreement, as enLight and I have begun to do in other threads, would pull us increasingly off-specificity here and ultimately down to an epistemological level, such that we would be discussing a different topic altogether. Thus, necrophilia is deemed immoral on the grounds of it violating the dignity and respect deserving of human life-or any life for that matter. To view the corpse not as a memory (or a remnant) of a living human being, but as an object of sexual gratification is no different that treating a living human being as merely an object of sexual gratification (thus diminshing their humaness) precisely because our memory of the person lives on in our minds and is connected to their corpse. How a culture treats its dead partly reflects how it views and values human life and human dignity.

Well, they don't care-it's the people who are still living that care.ДЄnd this is important. You might counter: well, they're dead, why should they care about what happens to their body? That face was their's and no one else's-plastic surgery aside.ДЄnd so, to engage in sexual intercourse with a corpse can be seen as a violation of the memory of that person, a vulgar act that dishonors them. And therefore, the memory and honor of that person is connected to that body. I think, for most people, it has to do with the fact that that corpse was once animated by a living person (whether you call it simple biochemical consciousness or a metaphysical soul is irrelevent). But then again, I'm no expert in pyschology (in fact, most of the time I regard it as junk science-but that's for another debate).ДЄs for the ethical implications of necrophilia.

One might argue that it is sexual insecurity that causes necrophilia, not shuns it.

Crack open a cold one necrophilia meme