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Necrophilia – having sex with corpses – is still legal in several American states, due to what one politician describes as ‘loopholes in the law’.

Aaron Vega, 45, is trying to get the law changed in Massachussetts, where no law explicitly outlaws necrophilia.

In other states such as Kansas and Louisiana, the law is fairly murky on the legality of sex with dead people.


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

‘If a perpetrator rapes a victim prior to a murder, there will be two charges – a rape charge and a murder charge.



‘Currently under the law if the perpetrator murders a victim and then rapes the victim after the murder, there would be only be one.

Vega is pushing for a new law which would make sex with dead people illegal.

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Vega says, ‘We want to know how a loved one is treated, even in death. What it comes down to is knowing that our loved ones are safe – whether it’s just a body, or something that contains a soul.’