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mitchell: David Mitchell’s SoapBox: A Bit Blue

In this week’s episode, David ponders the merits of necrophilia. (Otherwise known as thanatophilia and necrolagnia apparently).

Can it ever be acceptable to find love with corpses? Are we all just a bit too prudish about the idea of romance between the living and the dead? Well David thinks so.

Check out the show to check out why and, as ever, do subscribe to the show with our friends over at iTunes.

Warning: Not for the faint hearted!

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June 11th, 2009 - 1:59pm

Well i can see your point to a certain degree…BUT to be honest just the thought of it sends shivers up and down my spine there are plenty of living people to do it with (they say there is someone out there for everyone ) so why choose dead ones…..CREEPY. I love you David but i would much rather you be alive than dead if my dreams were to ever come true xxxxx

Angela
June 11th, 2009 - 10:15pm

Oy vey?!

Well… that was… um… different.

While it is true that sexually assaulting a corpse is no more horrific than any of the other perversities you mentioned it is no less horrific either.

If you were aiming, like your other comedian friend, to produce a reaction of outright shock, dismay, and horror… well done you!

Oy.

Enoch
June 11th, 2009 - 11:01pm

Haha :D I never thought there was much fun in necrophilia, but thank you for making me revise my ideas. Well not in THAT sense, of course ;) No, just in the sense that it is a topic that is good for comedic reasons. And a very true observation you made about the percieved level of perversion not correlating with the harm done. Which is only true if one of the involved parts is not alive at first and then killed for the purpose, of course.

Cabbage
June 11th, 2009 - 11:48pm

I’d happily tick that box.

Kate
June 12th, 2009 - 2:02am

This was not the funniest of David’s “boxes” (ticked or unticked) but I must point out that among those creepily relevant Google ads that appeared as I was watching this was for an online….

obituary archive!

June 12th, 2009 - 11:26am

Now, I’m probably spending too much time pondering this, but can one suspect that most necrophiliacs are actually men? I’m struggling to work out how a female necrophiliac would manage the ‘event’. Unless of course rigor mortis extends beyond the joints and limbs…

LilJerseyDevil
June 13th, 2009 - 2:39am

Ah, David. You brought me out of the woodwork on this one. I think people have a problem with the revulsion of it, not the morality. Everyone is thinking of lividity and maggots. Push the maggots away, though, and it is better to interfere with a corpse than with a child or an animal.

Still, I want my body to be treated with some respect. Hollow out my body cavity and fill it with delicious candy. Let the children whack at my hanging corpse like a pinata. Well, not just candy. Toys and puzzles for the kids that can’t have sugar. Even adults that are young at heart can have a whack. Fun for the whole family. And a lovely day out.

FYI for Necros:
If you do decide to date a corpse never say anything like “honey, are you putting on weight?” Because it’s just bloating caused by the gases of petrifaction. It’s rude to mention it, you know. And it’s your fault. You haven’t been refrigerating them properly.

LilJerseyDevil
June 13th, 2009 - 2:43am

Sorry to offend. Should read “Putrefaction.” Fingers typing too fast and I’m always distracted.

Loobylou
June 13th, 2009 - 7:16pm

I’ve asked my family not to let anyone have sex with me once I’m dead. Imagine if they were really sexy, I’d be even more pissed off that I’d carked it.

Maria
June 13th, 2009 - 7:42pm

Er… Ok… Hmm…

Didn’t see that one coming… Feeling slightly disturbed. Maybe the world is not ready yet for “funnies” about boinkin’ the dead.

How do you get from not being able to say compliments to somebody, to this?

Hmm… Well…

hmm.

June 13th, 2009 - 8:23pm

Some salient points, Mr Mitchell. I’m sure there are many of us who’s partner has died mid-coitus. In the heat of the moment one can easily mistake their death throes for a shuddering orgasm. So as you bury your face in the pillows and finish the job off, you may not question the unresponsiveness of your beau and find yourself quite enjoying the physiological changes to the body and how it feels on the business end. I wouldn’t personally go as far as digging anybody up…

Razza
June 13th, 2009 - 10:16pm

I love your mind. Too funnY!

Mel
June 13th, 2009 - 10:35pm

Who’s to say we can’t like correct spelling and entertaining the idea of necrophilia?

It’s really a three for one deal, so you’ve got your choice of how you want to be offended.

One: The disgusting nature of having sex with a corpse. This tends to imply decay, insects/worms, falling apart, or just cold lifeless bodies. So do the jokes, or at least the ones I’ve heard.

Two: There’s a religious aspect to it. Funerals are such heavily religious rituals that death becomes something sacred. Digging a body up in order to have sex with it is thus unpalatable to people who’d usually be happy with jokes about rape or bestiality.

(Sorry, that was below the belt. Though it is slightly true.)

Three: Most people know someone who has died. Statistically speaking, it is quite likely. And if anyone has had that happen recently, they might find jokes about corpses to be a tiny bit inappropriate.

I’d tick that box, except that I’m hoping to be cremated. Still, if they get in first, I won’t be able to complain.

Cassandra Brompton
June 14th, 2009 - 8:00am

I am having no sex life while i am living so if having lived for seventy odd years and having just kicked the bucket and someone finally wants to have sex with me i will be well pissed off in the afterlife.

pauldavies7
June 16th, 2009 - 10:41pm

I’m sure this is what happens when you leave your body to medical research anyway? Where else are researchers going to get sexual partners?

Also, fromn a health and safety point of view David should have warned that practioners will need lube for ALL orifices, not just the usual back door!

Custard Socks
June 17th, 2009 - 5:29pm

I never thought you were THAT kinky, David! ;)

Matt Hoskins
June 25th, 2009 - 1:36pm

I remember many years ago someone was randomly handing out necrocards at a party (it wasn’t that sort of party, I promise) styled after the organ donor card - a box on an organ donor card would be a bit more moral tho’, as necrophiliacs don’t really need most of your organs.

http://www.stewarthomesociety.org/images/gallery/necrocard.jpg

Pete
June 26th, 2009 - 7:50pm

Necrophilia is dead boring, whereas incest is relatively boring!

emily
July 4th, 2009 - 9:59am

I agree. What’s so bad with necrofela? Rape and pedophile are FAR worse. I will state that when i’m dead, anyone can do what they like, on condition that they prevent at least one rape, or castrate on pedophil before they get to me.

Janet
August 10th, 2009 - 7:46pm

Must watch the film CLERKS again. More dark humour please David. That was great.

Cara
August 14th, 2009 - 4:40pm

I genuinely wouldn’t mind if someone wanted to have sex with my corpse, unless in order to do so I was to be murdered. A big thumbs up to necrophilia, and to David for enlightening us on the subject.

Becky
August 14th, 2009 - 8:08pm

I would be prepared to bet my life that the “stand-up comedian” is Frankie Boyle…

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