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Necrophilia
Necrophilia
, also called
thanatophilia
, is a
sexual attraction
or sexual act involving
corpses
. The attraction is classified as a
paraphilia
by the
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual
(DSM) of the
American Psychiatric Association
. The term was coined by the Belgian
alienist
Joseph Guislain
, who first used it in a lecture in 1850. It derives from the Greek words (
nekros
; "dead") and (
philia
; "love").
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