This is a Glass Box Media Podcast. Why do you seem so scared? All I wanted to do is play with you. Please come and play with me.

I am so lonely. You're not afraid of the doll, are you? Don't be afraid. Come with me. I will show you where I play hide and seek. Do you want to play hide and seek? You hide and I'll find you. What do? If you're a regular listener of this podcast, I probably don't have to explain what necrophilia is.

If you really are so sheltered that you are unaware, it is sex with the dead, when you're stiff with a stiff,

when hot meets cold, extreme cooperation, call it whatever you want.

The prefix Negro relates to corpses in death.

The suffix,

philia, represents abnormal love for a specific thing.

Most would call necrophilia taboo, and they would be right.

It's certainly illegal.

It's called indignity to a body for a reason. This episode takes a look at the horrors

and joys of post-mortem sex and examines the motivating factors for why some human monsters have

partaken of it. Enjoy the podcast that is.

Incidents of necrophilia have been documented throughout history and much earlier than you might think.

According to Greek author Herodotus, who lived from 484 to 425 BC and ancient Egypt bodies of highly attractive women

were embalmed from three to four days post-mortem.

The reason for this was that it would prevent necrophilia

after an embalmer was caught having sex

with a female cadaver.

Christine Quigley, author of The Corps, a history, wrote that Jill De Rey, a leader in the French

Army, was reputed to have sexually violated the corpses of his victims.

Necrophiles, or people who enjoy necrophilia, have been classified into categories.

According to the fifth edition of the diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders,

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