Governor Schwarzenegger signs California law criminalizing necrophilia

You don’ t see many porn sites that feature intercourse with corpses, and if you do, how do you know they’ re really dead? But, say what you will about California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, you have to give him credit for signing a bill to forbid necrophilia. Under the new law, sex with a corpse is now a felony punishable by up to eight years in prison. Age is no barrier. 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 in a legislative committee, but the bill was revived after an unsuccessful prosecution of a man who was found in a San Francisco funeral home, passed out on top of an elderly woman’ s corpse. Necrophiliacs have been getting away with it all this time, but district attorneys will no longer be stymied by the lack of an official ban. According to Tyler Ochoa, a professor at Santa Clara University 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.” HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_015355