Schwarzenegger Signs Bill Banning Sex with Corpses

[kskiska]

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Having sex with corpses is now officially illegal in California after Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed a bill barring necrophilia, a spokeswoman said on Friday.

The new legislation marks the culmination of a two-year drive to outlaw necrophilia in the state and will help prosecutors who have been stymied by the lack of an official ban on the practice, according to experts.

"Nobody knows the full extent of the problem. ... But a handful of instances over the past decade is frequent enough to have a bill concerning it," said Tyler Ochoa, a professor at Santa Clara University School 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," Ochoa said.

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[rfranklin]

1. Does this mean no more ficky-ficky with Maria?

She looks like the Cryptkeerper.

[daligirrl]

29. ROFLMBAO!!

I've been wondering how long Maria's been dead! This is ban is entirely self-serving to Ahhhhhnold!

[Pirate Smile]

2. yuck - well, he didn't really have to go out on a limb with this one.

[delete_bush]

3. Seems to me the law would still apply...

"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," Ochoa said.

[The Straight Story]

4. Damn Government

Always trying to restrict our rights. Well, so much for the plans I had for the evening...

[wtmusic]

5. Now there's a priority

Why, I was just walking down the street the other day...:P

[Merrick]

6. That won't stop me.

Doesnt mean a thing if you don't get caught, and dead people are really good at keeping secrets.

[olddad56]

44. good point.

until you call the coroner, it is your little secret.

[barb162]

56. what if the corpse were your mother or sister

ummm, at first I thought, doesn't the illustrious mister muscles have anything else to do, but when this is going on with even one body, I say lock the sick son of a bitch up.

[ropi]

7. what's next?

banning sex with the blow-up dolls?

[tabasco]

8. That'll look good on his resume.

Jaaaa ... no more fokking deee corpzez een kaleeforneeya. Now make dee ahmenment to let me be dee preezeedent. Jaaaa....

[farmbo]

9. Another courageous Republican...not afraid to alienate the necro-vote

eom

[blue neen]

15. LOL!

[Booster]

16. Actually, I bet Arnold just pissed off a whole lot of

Republicans - this kind of stuff is right up their alley.

[Citizen Daryl]

10. Next Milestone: Ban On Shooting Cute Puppies In The Head.

Ahnold: Tackling De Tuff Izhoos.

[kskiska]

11. I once knew a girl who was secretary at a mortuary

and boy, the stories she would tell.

[0007]

12. Wow! Arnold's popularity will go sky high now!

Presidential material for sure!

[DemWitch]

13. Damn, I guess Donna of the Dead and I are off for tonight...

there goes my chance for a starring roll in Underground Comedy Movie Part 2...

[doreme]

18. i just hope

cheney doesn't die in california.

[blue neen]

14. Do you think he lost any sleep over signing this one?

He probably had to check with Maria first.

[w4rma]

17. Not exactly headline news. (nt)

[drscm]

19. What will Cheney do? Guess he'll avoid CA. eom

eom

[thinkingwoman]

20. um, it was legal before?

wow.

[DS1]

21. Dead Men Don't Pay Taxes

which makes me wonder what the real motivation behind this is

[stevedeshazer]

22. So far, this is his greatest accomplishment

Way to take a stand, Arnold Schwarzenegger. You've done yourself proud.

[JPace]

23. Thanks all you clever posters.....

I have not laughed this hard in a long time!

[Wickerman]

24. OK RW groupies, no more fucking Rumsfeld when he is in Cali!!

no, no one needed to say that, did they?

:7

[truthisfreedom]

25. well, this is one bill he can claim he didn't receive any contributions

that influenced his decision.

[AtTheEndOfTheDay]

26. Maybe he got stood up by a stiff.

[ruggerson]

27. What about same sex corpses?

Shouldn't those be doubly banned?

[PartyPooper]

28. Gee, I wonder if this bill bans groping, too?

:eyes:

[DaveSZ]

30. Heh

Good.

Now Rush can't dig up Reagan and...never mind.

[Dem2theMax]

73. Darn it, you stole my line! lol.

I was going to ask why he didn't ban groping them as well. Guess he has to have some form of stimulation. Ewwwwwwwww.

Boy, I tell you, I'm so glad California is in such capable hands.
:puke:

[jus_the_facts]

31. it's this very sorta shit that gives me hope that we'll all be put down...

.....out of our misery once and for all...the sooner the f'n better...it's this very kind o'thing that proves there's not a chance in hell o' anything gettin' better...when garbage like this is NEWS and important gov't time is wasted on such a NON ISSUE...GODDAMMIT ALL....shoot me now...please! :evilfrown:

[Crunchy Frog]

70. After I shoot you...

want to get together?

[olddad56]

32. Damn, there goes my plans for the weekend.

I'm wondering if lawyers can get an exemption on this one. Estate attorneys have been known to screw people long after they are dead. At least Arnie signed a piece of legislation. Must have been a cause dear to his heart

[Kinkistyle]

33. I'm sorry, is necrophilia immoral in some way?

I mean, I personally find it beyond disgusting, but is it in some way immoral or unethical?

[Occulus]

63. Wow.

[DemoTex]

34. Uh ... was this a big problem-o in Californ-o?

Sounds like a few isolated weirdnesses to me. B&E? Look-it, anybody who would break into a mortuary to screw an old corpse needs to be in the loony-bin, not the lock-up. Seriously.

[olddad56]

38. It is a huge problem because the victims were reluctant to testify.

[DemoTex]

39. Che-chunk, che-chunk!

Left myself wide open for that one.

[baldingrockwarlord]

35. It's good to see that...

the guvernator is passing some meaningful legislation for Cah-lee-four-nee-ya. Now that screwing cadavers is illegal...too think of the fun I was missing out on!

[Comicstripper]

36. Well, it's about time

Look, sex is between a man and a living woman, not a man and a corpse, or WORSE- a man and another man.
SEE!!?!?! WE SAID IT WAS A SLIPPERY SLOPE!
Stupid GOP

[DoNotRefill]

37. Ummmm.....GOOD????

I don't know a whole lot of people who support necrophelia. After all, it's not like a corpse can give consent....

[olddad56]

40. Does this just make intercourse with dead people illegal?

or can you still do other things. Can you at least fondle em a little bit. What about the poor widow whose husband couldn't get an erection for the last 20 years. Now he has finally got a stiffie and she has to pass on it. This just ain't right. Next they will say you can't have sex with animals once they pass away. I guess this is the kind of crazy stuff that happens once you allow two people of the same sex to marry. The repubs were right all along.

[leesa]

45. Too funny. I'm from California. Someone please take this fool away!

[Crunchy Frog]

71. Can you still have relations

with a dead box turtle?

[napi21]

41. Who thought this one up????

Why in the world would anyone think to make something like that needs to have a law to make it wrong? I have a bigger problem with whoever thought of this to make it into a bill than I have with Arnold for signing it!

[olddad56]

42. actually

as weird as it is, and as humorous as some of the comments have been. If you read the article, it sort of makes sense. Until now they didn't have anything to charge people with who did this. All they could charge them with was 'breaking and entering' (I'm serious) and if they worked in a mortuary where the incident took place, they couldn't even charge them with that. I think if I was a relative of the deceased, it would disturb me to know some wacko was going to walk after he got caught humping my dead grandmother.

[napi21]

46. We have sodomy laws, and rape laws and this doesn't fit any?

I thought the definition of rape or statutory rape was intercourse without consent or the ability to grant concent. Is it possible for a corpse to grant concenet???

I guess if the Ca. legislature thinks they have to have a specific law, then go for it. It just seems pretty strange to me.

[olddad56]

50. What about sex between consenting corpses?

[olddad56]

51. Doesn't this sort of discriminate against the living?

[BigBigBear]

43. Profiles in courage

Seriously....who's gonna complain?

[SoDesuKa]

47. Stopping In for a Cold One

Stopping in for a cold one is now off limits.

[no_hypocrisy]

48. How can necrophilia be a crime if the victim isn't available to testify

against the defendant? This law sounds unconstitutional . . .

[Swamp Rat]

49. Must... not... post!... overload... error!

[Fridays Child]

52. Oh, now THAT'S the proverbial third rail of political issues, isn't it?

[ogradda]

53. gross!!!

you mean this was legal before?

[olddad56]

55. yeah, but it has always been frowned upon...

it isn't like you brag about, or do it in public.

[jackieforthedems]

54. Guess I've Been Living In Another World

or something. I didn't know stuff like that was going on. Yuck! That's just gross!!!

[Arianrhod]

57. Republicans are sure obsessed with sex, aren't they? n/t

[BiggJawn]

58. OK, Ahh-Nuld's been listening to Sam Kinnison, hasn't he?

"Necrophilia.....Oh, Yeah, fucking the DEAD...I know all about fucking the Dead...I WAS MARRIED FOR FIFTEEN YEARS!!!!"

In Indiana, I think it's called "Abuse of a Body" and covers shit like dumping the departed in a dumpster, setting them out on the kerb in a hefty bag and yes, slipping them the long tong.....

[tuvor]

59. That's his Friday night excitement?

[Snazzy]

60. "first they banned sex with corpses...

then they banned...

Then they came for me"

The chicken f*cker lobby should take a lesson from the NRA.

Accept no compromises. Cluck now or cluck off.

[Endangered Specie]

61. They musta been worried about some Freeper digging up Reagan

and, well... you know.

[jab105]

62. So republicans can't get it on with Reagan any more?

:shrug:

[wellst0nev0ter]

64. You Know, First People Start Having Sex With Corpses

next thing you know, people will start having sex with pet frogs or something, or even worse, enter into homosexual relationships :eyes:

[Minstrel Boy]

65. As he signed, did he say "Hasta la vista, dead baby?"

Arnie sure can pick his wedge issues.

[umtalal]

66. This idiot is a waste of our tax money.

[DaveSZ]

67. See this is why we need a constitutional amendment

to ban sex with corpses.

Activist judges might overturn this law.

[umtalal]

69. NOoooooOOOOOooooOOOOO

[Crunchy Frog]

68. Well,

that takes care of any chance that I had to get a date with someone. Damn you Arnold.x(

[smirkymonkey]

72. This won't go over too well with Republicans...

it literally forces them to be celibate! :evilgrin:

[izzie]

74. I think this is one of those laws that will be hard to enforce.

Just who will do the reporting on it? Did he have all old white guys standing around his chair as he sighed it in to law? Sorry but it really sounds like some thing out of "The far Side".