Dr.Strangelove:
…But for necrophilia, I think it’s hard for most people to imagine the kind of brain state needed to make that desirable. You’re talking much lower-level mechanisms related to the things we find disgusting. Never mind that it’s a much milder morality violation; it pegs the gross-meter and that overrides the rest.
The disgust element is huge, of course.
But setting that aside, the paraphilia itself seems far less weird and incomprehensible to me than many others. After all, at least the object of attraction bears some resemblance to a conventional sexual partner.
Paraphilias are sexual interests in objects, situations, or individuals that are atypical. The American Psychiatric Association, in its Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, Fifth Edition (DSM), draws a distinction between paraphilias (which it describes as atypical sexual interests) and paraphilic disorders (which additionally require the experience of distress, impairment in functioning, and/or the desire to act on them with a nonconsenting person). Some paraphilias have more than one term t In ...