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Can you rape a dead person?

Rape (noun)

1. To force (another person) to submit to sex acts, especially sexual intercourse; commit rape on.
2. To seize and carry off by force.
3. To plunder or pillage.

The basic question is, even if a person is dead, is something still against their will? Or is a dead person only a body, an empty vessel of what once carried a human being, making it impossible to rape them as they are simply an object?

Never mind if you'd actually want to rape a dead person, I'm just interested in how people view the dead.

Can you rape a dead person?

Rape (noun)

1. To force (another person) to submit to sex acts, especially sexual intercourse; commit rape on.
2. To seize and carry off by force.
3. To plunder or pillage.

The basic question is, even if a person is dead, is something still against their will? Or is a dead person only a body, an empty vessel of what once carried a human being, making it impossible to rape them as they are simply an object?

Never mind if you'd actually want to rape a dead person, I'm just interested in how people view the dead.

Dug yourself into a hole, Grix? Literally?

I have a private jet.

It just popped into my head. I think I'm sick and twisted.

No one is disputing that

It has a name.

Necrophilliac... possibly.

You can't rape dead people, no.

This is because in California, a man "raped" a dead child, but got away with it as it wasn't rape, as she didn't refuse.

Hence why Arnie made Necrophilia illegal in that state; to prevent a recurrence of it.

Testing........

A dead body is a dead organism. We are just another species of many, from a vast collection in the world.

Something that is dead: To me it is just a mass of substance, with no significance (unless you knew it before). We all live, then 'return to the ground from wence we came'.

But to the question: Intercourse and rape are different things as ur definations pointed out. Rape is having sex with someone/thing against its own wishes. Dead bodies have no will, no thought, no desires, and even if the spirit did actually live on, it wouldnt be present in the body (since spirits are said to leave the body on death), so therefore the body would just be a body, nothing more.

But why anyone would want to shag a dead person, or anything dead is beyond me. You just have to be very whacked in the head i guess. Or EXTREMELY desperate lol.

Anyone been/go to Kings College London, and seen the Gordon Museum? Went there the other day, they have foetus's in jars! Amoungst hundreds of other body samples.

Well, rape is linked to consent. And dead bodies can't have any say in the matter. And you can't rape something that isn't alive.

So, no, it's not rape, just wrong.