Necrophilia, the act of having sexual intercourse or sexual contact with a dead body, is still technically legal in many American states. In Massachusetts, one politician is trying to get that changed.

Aaron Vega, a 45-year-old state representative from Massachusetts, did not particularly want to go down in history as the “necrophilia legislator”, but when a captain in his local town’s police force came to him with what he calls a couple of “loopholes in the law”, he felt he had no choice but to risk the stigma.

“Currently, it is illegal to have sex with an animal in Massachusetts, but not with a dead person,” Vega told the Guardian.

What the Democrat calls an “interesting paradigm” does not stop here.

“There is also a host of arcane Massachusetts laws that are still on the books,” he said.

Among other “outdated” and “unenforceable” laws in his state was the stated criminality of adultery, sodomy, blasphemy and the act of displaying an albino in public for hire, he pointed out.

Determined to change this, Vega is currently co-sponsoring a bill, filed earlier this year, to explicitly outlaw necrophilia under an existing section of the Massachusetts law books entitled “Crimes Against Chastity, Morality, Decency and Good Order”, making the act punishable by up to 20 years.

This is the very same chapter where many of the outdated laws Vega decries – like displaying an albino person in public for hire – are still contained. Another under the same section stipulates that “vagabonds” may be imprisoned for up to 12 months for “acting in a suspicious manner” in a public setting.

When pushed, Vega admits he knew of no particular necrophilia incident in his state, but that that didn’t mean sex with cadavers wasn’t going on...

wackyjacky wrote:I didn't know that and I grew up in Boston. Animals are out and dead humans are OK. What about dead animals and what's the statute of limitations ?

Sailorman wrote:In Alaska there used to be no sodomy laws. Dogs, sheep, cows, Moose, bears were fair game.