Swedish woman charged with having sex with a skeleton.

[Kleomentia]

they should just lock her up in a lunatics asylum

And when she turns into a skeleton then her love and she can be together at last.

[Madda]

That's illegal?

[Galloism]

I don't see why. It's just a body. Without the mind in it, it's completely inanimate. It's pretty gross but then I find all kinds of things gross, it isn't my job to regulate peoples sex lives provided everyone involved is consenting.
Clearly here, the owner of the corpse either consented, or the property was stolen.
It isn't a rape, it's a theft.
If I steal your car and then have sex with it, the only crime i've commited is car theft.
...
and possibly indecent exposure.

It was a body that was alive at one time, and society shouldn't ignore a man's rights simply because he is no longer alive. I certainly wouldn't want anyone messing around with my body unless I give them permission before I die. Like the organ donation people, for example.

Why should a person's corpse have human rights after death?

It has no consciousness with which to exercise it, nor any hope of regaining such consciousness.

[Kleomentia]

If someone used hair i'd cut off to masturbate with i'd give literally no shits.
Well ok, i'd be a bit weirded out, but not too much provided they stay away from me.
This is practically the same thing. This is bodily waste, not a body.

Do you consider it equal to necrophilia for someone to steal hair from a barber shop and use it for sexual activities?

So why waste money making sex toys, you can just take grandpa out of the basement and enjoy.

[Nightkill the Emperor]

I like the poll.

[Ostroeuropa]

It was a body that was alive at one time, and society shouldn't ignore a man's rights simply because he is no longer alive. I certainly wouldn't want anyone messing around with my body unless I give them permission before I die. Like the organ donation people, for example.

Why should a person's corpse have human rights after death?

It has no consciousness with which to exercise it, nor any hope of regaining such consciousness.

Which is precisely why I see it as a property rights issue.
They no longer own their body, their next of kin does.

[Giovenith]

Why should a person's corpse have human rights after death?

It has no consciousness with which to exercise it, nor any hope of regaining such consciousness.

Which is precisely why I see it as a property rights issue.
They no longer own their body, their next of kin does.

What if she WAS next in kin?

[Capitolinium]

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/11/21/us-sweden-skeleton-idUSBRE8AK0IJ20121121?feedType=RSS&feedName=oddlyEnoughNews

Reuters) - "A woman in Sweden has been charged with engaging in sexual activities with a human skeleton and could face jail time [2 years max] for disturbing the peace of the dead, a Swedish prosecutor said.

Police found a full human skeleton, skulls and a box containing other human bones by chance....

They also discovered CD-ROMs titled "my necrophilia" and "my first experience", and photographs of the woman engaging in various sexual activities with a skeleton....

It said the woman had handled the bones in a "shameful" and "unethical" manner.

"She is interested in the dead," Prosecutor Kristina Ehrenborg-Staffas told Reuters. "She has pictures of morgues, churches and graveyards.""

So she is being prosecuted for causing the state to go "Ewww"?

To me this is repugnant and distasteful but also a victimless crime. The skeleton doesn't care, I'm sure.

Why not just leave her alone? There are more important objectives for law enforcement.

What are your reactions? Should this sort of thing be punished? Repressed but allowed? Ignored?

Or (ewwww) encouraged?

Yet another loving relationship that those evil, evil conservatives will never see the beauty of.

[Ostroeuropa]

Which is precisely why I see it as a property rights issue.
They no longer own their body, their next of kin does.

What if she WAS next in kin?

*shrug*
There's no better way of preventing inbred children than one of the participants being dead. knock yourself out. Though if I thought my sister would be up for that I may leave my corpse specifically to someone else...

[Galloism]

What if she WAS next in kin?

*shrug*
There's no better way of preventing inbred children than one of the participants being dead. knock yourself out.

I approve of this post.

[Kleomentia]

What if she WAS next in kin?

*shrug*
There's no better way of preventing inbred children than one of the participants being dead. knock yourself out. Though if I thought my sister would be up for that I may leave my corpse specifically to someone else...

And quoted.

[Raeyh]

It was a body that was alive at one time, and society shouldn't ignore a man's rights simply because he is no longer alive. I certainly wouldn't want anyone messing around with my body unless I give them permission before I die. Like the organ donation people, for example.

Why should a person's corpse have human rights after death?

It has no consciousness with which to exercise it, nor any hope of regaining such consciousness.

It would be the equivalent of tearing down a man's life work just because he isn't around anymore. Your body is one of last things you have for people to remember you by. That's why we put them in expensive urns or make headstones.

[Umbra Ac Silentium]

Why should a person's corpse have human rights after death?

It has no consciousness with which to exercise it, nor any hope of regaining such consciousness.

It would be the equivalent of tearing down a man's life work just because he isn't around anymore. Your body is one of last things you have for people to remember you by. That's why we put them in expensive urns or make headstones.

I just want mine barbecued

[Wisconsin9]

Why should a person's corpse have human rights after death?

It has no consciousness with which to exercise it, nor any hope of regaining such consciousness.

It would be the equivalent of tearing down a man's life work just because he isn't around anymore. Your body is one of last things you have for people to remember you by. That's why we put them in expensive urns or make headstones.

The only way you can tell who a person was once their corpse is rotted is by keeping their urn around, or remembering where you buried them, or by running a DNA test on the bones. I'd much, much rather be remembered based on what I did, not because there's a chunk of rock with my name on it in a field of chunks of rocks with names on them.

[Galloism]

Why should a person's corpse have human rights after death?

It has no consciousness with which to exercise it, nor any hope of regaining such consciousness.

It would be the equivalent of tearing down a man's life work just because he isn't around anymore. Your body is one of last things you have for people to remember you by. That's why we put them in expensive urns or make headstones.

And yet the life work of people is torn down every day to make room for that megamall.

Are you proposing we never tear down anything that was a major event in anyone's life ever?

[Ostroeuropa]

Why should a person's corpse have human rights after death?

It has no consciousness with which to exercise it, nor any hope of regaining such consciousness.

It would be the equivalent of tearing down a man's life work just because he isn't around anymore. Your body is one of last things you have for people to remember you by. That's why we put them in expensive urns or make headstones.

If the dumb shit was stupid enough to leave his lifes work in the hands of someone who wanted to have sex with it, then that's his problem.
Write your wills people, jeez.

(Mine actually does deal with my corpse. Harvest it for organs - send whats left to the medical labs - if noone wants it/anything is returned, burn and scatter.)

[Fintanland]

Well, taking the corpse from someone else (where did she get that thing anyway?) is theft. Otherwise, icky but no crime.

[Raeyh]

It would be the equivalent of tearing down a man's life work just because he isn't around anymore. Your body is one of last things you have for people to remember you by. That's why we put them in expensive urns or make headstones.

And yet the life work of people is torn down every day to make room for that megamall.

Are you proposing we never tear down anything that was a major event in anyone's life ever?

That's a bit impractical, which is why people just limit it to the bodies.

[Ostroeuropa]

And yet the life work of people is torn down every day to make room for that megamall.

Are you proposing we never tear down anything that was a major event in anyone's life ever?

That's a bit impractical, which is why people just limit it to the bodies.

So you mean its nothing like that thing you said it was exactly like.
Wanna try again for a better analogy?

[Galloism]

And yet the life work of people is torn down every day to make room for that megamall.

Are you proposing we never tear down anything that was a major event in anyone's life ever?

That's a bit impractical, which is why people just limit it to the bodies.

And yet, some ask for their ashes to be scattered, and many such are.

These eventually make up parts of something or somethings else.

In fact, on a long enough timeframe, we all will.

[Ostroeuropa]

Find the victim of this crime and i'll consider it a crime.
I'm more than willing to say she should pay a fine if it turns out she stole the bones and used them without consent.
Maybe even jail time for theft.

But the actual sex bit isn't immoral. It's just using an inanimate object to get ones jollies.
too many people equate gross with immoral. Spending time with furries has taught me not to.

[Videssos]

If someone used hair i'd cut off to masturbate with i'd give literally no shits.
Well ok, i'd be a bit weirded out, but not too much provided they stay away from me.
This is practically the same thing. This is bodily waste, not a body.

Do you consider it equal to necrophilia for someone to steal hair from a barber shop and use it for sexual activities?

So why waste money making sex toys, you can just take grandpa out of the basement and enjoy.

Oh, lol.
Hilarious stuff.

[Pope Joan]

If someone used hair i'd cut off to masturbate with i'd give literally no shits.
Well ok, i'd be a bit weirded out, but not too much provided they stay away from me.
This is practically the same thing. This is bodily waste, not a body.

Do you consider it equal to necrophilia for someone to steal hair from a barber shop and use it for sexual activities?

Speaking just for myself, no I do not.

But please do not use my hair or fingernails or anything for some weird voodoo Obeah crap.

[Wind in the Willows]

This is absolutely disgusting.

[Qazox]

Never in a hundred million years will I be able to get that image out of my head.

Oh, we've had worse mental images on NSG.

If we allowed NSGers to post nude pics we wouldn't

Necrophila's just wrong.