S1E9: Necrophilia

Necrophilia (with Dr. Victoria Sullivan & Dr. Jens Foell)

Where does necrophilia come from? What makes people desecrate corpses? And do you have to be a serial killer to have a death fetish? Today’s guests are Dr. Victoria Hartmann, a clinical psychology researcher and executive director of the Erotic Heritage Museum in Las Vegas, and neuroscientist and science communicator Dr. Jens Foell.

Where does necrophilia come from? What makes people desecrate corpses? And do you have to be a serial killer to have a death fetish?

Today’s guests are Dr. Victoria Hartmann, a clinical psychology researcher and executive director of the Erotic Heritage Museum in Las Vegas, and neuroscientist and science communicator Dr. Jens Foell.

Citations and further reading:

• Sleeping Beauty Is Based on a Story Where a Married King Finds a Girl Asleep and Can’t Wake Her, So Rapes Her Instead by Daven Hiskey, Today I Found Out
• Sleeping Beauty (1959) Plot; IMDB
• Disney Left Out the Most Gruesome Aspects of the Original Snow White Story by E.L. Hamilton, The Vintage News
• Abuse of a corpse: A brief history and re-theorization of necrophilia laws in the USA. Troyer, J. (2021). Mortality. 
• Carl Tanzler Fell In Love With His Patient, Then Lived With Her Corpse, All That’s Interesting
• Sex Nerd Podcast
• I Love Dead People: Inside the Minds of Death Fetishists by Victoria Hartmann, Ph.D.

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