According to Merriam-Webster, necrophilia can be defined as "obsession with and usually erotic interest in or stimulation by corpses" (Webster1). Someone must experience a minimum of six months of strong, habitual urges or dreams regarding sexual interaction with dead bodies to be diagnosed with necrophilia (USCB1). An individual may be diagnosed with necrophilia even if he does not act on or satisfy any of his impulses. Necrophilia encompasses a broad range of actions and fantasies (UCSB1). Experts have created subcategories to help clarify the spectrum of necrophilic actions and fantasies (UCSB1). The first subcategory is necrophilic fantasies. “Necrophilic fantasies” are simply fantasies of sexual contact with the deceased (UCSB1). The second subcategory, “pseudonecrophilia,” is defined as secluded episodes of sexual contact with a corpse without prior necrophilic fantasies or desires (UCSB1). The third subcategory is necrosadism. “Necrosadism” is described as “a paraphilia in which sexual pleasure is derived from violent actions performed on a corpse, such as mutilation or drinking of blood” (UCSB1). The last subcategory, necrophilic homicide, is like necrosadism, but differs in that the crime of killing a victim to acquire a corpse is a part of fantasy (UCSB1). Most necrophiliacs or necrophiliacs are heterosexual males between the ages of twenty and fifty (UCSB1). Some examples of infamous necrophilic males are Jeffrey Dahmer, Ed Gein, and Ted Bundy. “Jeffrey Dahmer, also known as the Milwaukee Cannibal, raped, killed and dismembered 17 boys and men from 1978 to 1991” (IPood1). On July 22, 1991, he was arrested in his apartment located within the Oxford Apartments (Nichols244). “In his putrid one-bedroom apartment in Milwaukee, he saved painted skulls and severed heads, including one hidden in the refrigerator next door
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