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Welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind from How StuffWorks.com.

Hey, welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind. My name is Robert Lamb. And I'm Christian Sager.

And you did read the title right. This is our necrophilia episode. So we want to throw out just a

couple of quick disclaimers before we move forward. Not everything in this episode is going to deal

with human necrophilia, but a lot of it does.

So there is some, some of the information we're covering here is going to be a little sexual in nature.

Certainly graphic.

Certainly graphic.

And a little, at least a little disturbing.

Now, we're, you know, we're not going to go all in on the details.

You know, we're going to keep it reasonable here, but still, we're just going to throw that disclaimer out there. So proceed, maybe not at your own risk, but, hey, you know if this is not your thing, then maybe you should just skip to the next step. Yeah, and I just want to also acknowledge that, you know, we, we didn't choose this solely to be gross, but that, like,

there's, as you will find through. maybe you should just skip to the next step. Yeah, and I just want to also acknowledge that, you know, we didn't choose this solely to be gross,

but that, like, there's, as you will find throughout this episode, there's been a ton of research into it.

But also that human beings are naturally fascinated by the concept of necrophilia.

And it seems to be, maybe we'll get to the heart of this by the end of the

episode, but because it's pretty much the ultimate transgression, because you know that

almost anybody that you pose this to is going to be horrified by it. Yeah. You know, unless

they're like secret cults of necrophiles that, you know, are able to talk about it with one another, it's pretty much a solitary habit in human beings.

Yeah, and it's, and it occupies such a weird space in our psyche because it also draws in these elements of, oh, well, this body has died and this body is no longer the person that it was.

Right.

You know, I mean, certainly we've spent the entirety of human history grappling with that.

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