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Schwarzenegger Signs Bill Banning Sex with Corpses
Reuters ^ | 9-10-04

Posted on 09/10/2004 5:00:44 PM PDT by Indy Pendance

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Having sex with corpses is now officially illegal in California after Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed a bill barring necrophilia, a spokeswoman said on Friday.

The new legislation marks the culmination of a two-year drive to outlaw necrophilia in the state and will help prosecutors who have been stymied by the lack of an official ban on the practice, according to experts.

"Nobody knows the full extent of the problem. ... But a handful of instances over the past decade is frequent enough to have a bill concerning it," said Tyler Ochoa, a professor at Santa Clara University School of Law who has studied California cases involving allegations of necrophilia.

"Prosecutors didn't have anything to charge these people with other than breaking and entering. But if they worked in a mortuary in the first place, prosecutors couldn't even charge them with that," Ochoa said.

The state's first attempt to outlaw necrophilia, in response to a case of a man charged with having sex with the corpse of a 4-year-old girl in Southern California, stalled last year in a legislative committee.

Lawmakers revived the bill this year after an unsuccessful prosecution of a man found in a San Francisco funeral home drunk and passed out on top of an elderly woman's corpse.

The new law makes sex with a corpse a felony punishable by up to eight years in prison.


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: arnold; arnoldlegacy; disorders; necrophilia; paraphilias; sexualorientation
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To: Indy Pendance
Schwarzenegger Signs Bill Banning Sex with Corpses

I'm sure such a thing would get the vote of the dead in Chicago.
101 posted on 09/10/2004 5:44:07 PM PDT by aruanan
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To: Indy Pendance

Just to be a troublemaker, I'd like to point out that Arnold, during his campaign, essentially said that there was nothing in his mind that told him one type of behavior was wrong, and another wasn't. Where does he get the moral/philosophical reasoning to say that necrophilia is wrong?

In 25 years, the secular radical left will be defending necrophilia. Bank on it.


103 posted on 09/10/2004 5:46:07 PM PDT by Zack Nguyen
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To: blue jeans

I couldn't have, with so few words, said it better blue Jeans


104 posted on 09/10/2004 5:46:17 PM PDT by Nathan Zachary
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To: Indy Pendance

So Al Gore is shut off in California?


105 posted on 09/10/2004 5:50:10 PM PDT by muir_redwoods
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To: GRANGER

lol


106 posted on 09/10/2004 5:51:00 PM PDT by jammer
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To: Indy Pendance

This does not sound fair to corpses. If they can vote in California, they should also be allowed to have sex!


107 posted on 09/10/2004 5:52:42 PM PDT by NCjim
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To: Indy Pendance
A sign of the times. In the sixties, the Harvard comedian Tom Lehrer said the following during a performance:

"I particularly remember one heartwarming book he wrote about a young necrophiliac who finally achieved his boyhood ambition by becoming coroner."

{mild laughter from the audience}

"The rest of you can look it up when you get home."

In a song about college, however, Lehrer was happy to use:

"Turn on the spigot
Pour the beer and swig it
And gaudeamus igit...ur"

Nowadays, I imagine few people know gaudeamus igitur, but only a weirdo wouldn't know what a coroner or necrophiliac were all about.

108 posted on 09/10/2004 5:52:43 PM PDT by monkey
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To: GRANGER

lol!

Expect the Democrats to raise a stink ;-) about. Afterall, they have to represent the poor and opressed dead people.


109 posted on 09/10/2004 5:53:25 PM PDT by Simmy2.5 (Kerry served in Vietnam. Really. Just as the Swift Boat Vets.)
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To: Indy Pendance

Man, they are really getting hard up out there in Calif. Suprised they have to pass a law to make this illegal.


110 posted on 09/10/2004 5:54:58 PM PDT by TheLion
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To: Indy Pendance
There once was a guy named Dave
Who found a dead whore in a cave
She was ugly as sin
Looked like Rin Tin Tin
But think of the money he'd save!
Oh!
111 posted on 09/10/2004 5:56:13 PM PDT by StoneFury
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To: Spok

Not only that, it will provide us with another source of News of the Wierd stories for years to come.


112 posted on 09/10/2004 5:56:57 PM PDT by dr_who_2
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To: NormsRevenge
"California, the home of the Grateful Dead"

Hey, they can vote out there, they ought at least be able to F***.

113 posted on 09/10/2004 5:58:13 PM PDT by TheLion
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To: Poohbah

Damn your good ! :-) Great minds and all....


114 posted on 09/10/2004 5:58:53 PM PDT by JediForce (Never underestimate the power of the Dark side of the Force....keep the blasters' fully charged.)
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To: BossLady

This will finally stop the perverts dead in their tracks.


115 posted on 09/10/2004 5:59:32 PM PDT by vikingchick
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To: sweetliberty; nicmarlo

need some laughs?


116 posted on 09/10/2004 6:04:19 PM PDT by TheLion
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To: Michael.SF.
Well, that means we just lost the Morticians vote.

It wouldn't surprise me! When I lived in the midwest, about 30 years ago, I knew a woman who married a mortician and she was suspicious of him because he often asked her to take a cold shower and lay still before they had sex.

117 posted on 09/10/2004 6:07:04 PM PDT by Susannah (Kerry has a flexible message--it changes with each campaign stop and audience.)
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To: TheLion
Geez! Why would they have to issue a ban on it if there wasn't a problem with people actually doing it?

*Shudders*

118 posted on 09/10/2004 6:09:41 PM PDT by sweetliberty ("A wise man's heart inclines him to the right, but a fool's heart to the left." (Eccl. 10:2))
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To: sweetliberty

There sure are some strange dudes around.


119 posted on 09/10/2004 6:14:24 PM PDT by TheLion
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How about sex with a walking corpse ? You know , someone like Kerry !


120 posted on 09/10/2004 6:17:21 PM PDT by sushiman
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