Crimes in Anatomy
Two posts in one day... Yeah I was bored.
If you can think of it, there is a sexual fetish for it. There is a sexual fetish for jeans, panties, diapers, latex, leather, breasts, freckles, navels, body piercings, smoking, amputees, lactation, shit, pissing, spitting, hands, feet, vomitting, and there is even a sexual fetish for stuffed animals. Really, what guy after watching the movie "Click" is not going to have some dirty thoughts whenever he sees a stuffed toy duck. Personally, I could dig the whole smoking fetish... nothing hotter than a chick lighting up a cigarette after sex. Nothing wrong morally with most fetishes, as long as they do not harm others, some are just strange. That being said, the term for a person who likes to have sex with dead bodies is necrophiliac or necrophile. Currently in the United States there are sixteen states that have specific laws banning necrophila, and Nevada is the only one that has laws that are so airtight, there is next to no possibilities of legal "loopholes." Most of these sixteen states did not even vote to ban necrophila, until after 1979. This was when funeral home worker Karen Greenlee was captured in a funeral home's hearse with a man's dead body that she had been fucking for two days straight, along with a note confessing to having sex with around 40 dead men. I am not even going to tell you that in an interview she stated that she liked to 69 with the bodies... Because that would just be mean of me. Oops. So what was the punishment for having sex with the dead body? Nothing, but for stealing the body and the hearse, she got eleven days in jail, a $255 fine, and was placed on two years probation.
I have a reason for discussing necrophila other than the fact that fetishes are interesting to me, I mean really... what kind of person gets off on wearing diapers and sucking on pacifiers??? The point is this, all throughout history there have been little or no laws anywhere against body snatching. Since the time of ancient Greece, there has been bans on dissecting the human body after death. It was not until mid 1700's that people were allowed to cut open the dead. Back then though, people took two phrases literally... Man was made in god's image, which means to cut open a dead body was the same as cutting open god, and also the ressurection. People used to think (and some still do) that not only your soul will rise, but that your body will literally get up from the grave. Who would want to rise from their grave with their bowels and everything hanging out? With this being the way of thinking, would you want to donate your body to science? Hell no. This was a prevalent problem even through all of the 1800's and early 1900's. Doctor's and medical students needed cadavers desperately... So where did they get them from? A doctor by the name of William Harvey went and dug up the bodies of his dead father and sister to cut open. Considering the fact that he is the one who discovered the circulatory system, I think it was worth it. Being dissected was thought of as worse than death, so many criminals were orded to be disscected after death. For instance if you stole a pig, you would be hung, but if you killed a man, you would be orderd to be hanged and dissected. This did not provide enough bodies for doctors and students though. Both Doctors and medical students would often go and dig up bodies of the recently deceased for use. A lot of medical schools in England and Scotland would allow for students to pay their tuitions in dead bodies. More often than not though, they would turn to professional body snatchers. While grave robbing was considered a serious crime with a severe punishment, there was absolutely nothing legally wrong with stealing a body. The difference being in that grave robbing was stealing valuables from tombs and such. A hole big enough to tear open a part of the casket was all that was needed, then the body was lifted by a rope, and the dirt replaced. This whole process took only about an hour, so this became a very lucrative business. Along with the money paid by physicians, the body snatchers would take some of the flesh to make wallets out of, they would also take the teeth from the cadavers mouth to sell to dentist. The dentist would then use those cadaver's teeth to replace missing teeth in living people. People back then did not care, much like today people don't care that collagen injections used to get rid of wrinkles, comes from either bovine or cadaver flesh.
To be called a surgeon back then was not a big deal either. They were often referred to as "barber surgeons", because most were professional barbers who also did things such as amputations and what not. That is why you see the red and white stripes out side of hair salons. The red represents the blood, while the white represents the bandages. Even in the 1800's it was not uncommon for a person to be deemed a surgeon simply because a family member was, as evident in one of the first malpractice law suits. A man by the name of Bransby Cooper, who was the nephew of famed Sir Astley Cooper, was performing a simple bladder stone removal in an operating theatre. Operating theatres are where the poor had to go, and it was basically a death sentence. The surgeons cared more about showing the procedure to the many medical students standing around then they did about the patients life. The bladder stone was to be removed from a patient named Stephen Pollard, who was a very healthy laborer. A normal bladder stone removal back then took a few minutes. This took place on December 20, 1828, keep in mind there was no such thing as anesthesia or concept of handwashing until the 1860's. Stephen Pollard was on his back on the operating table with his knees to his neck and his hands tied to his feet, for over an hour. The doctor tried using the regular tools, such as a gorget, scoop, and forceps... This was all being inserted into the man's asshole in front of 200 observers. Finally the doctor just started shoving his fingers in there to see if he could locate the stone... Latex gloves did not come around until the 1950's. The doctor even started placing his hands next to the hands of the onlookers to see if anyone had longer fingers. Finally the stone was removed, and Stephen Pollard died 29 hours later of a massive infection. What a way to be remembered. Other atrocites that took place in operating theatres... Let's say that a woman goes in for a minor surgery after anesthia has been invented... Well, since that woman is unconcious, the doctor would have students perform other operations, such as removal of the appendix or tonsils. Unconscious women are also what the students would practice doing pap smears on, since most were uncomfortable with performing it on women that were awake. Well that is it for now... I am off of work.
If you can think of it, there is a sexual fetish for it. There is a sexual fetish for jeans, panties, diapers, latex, leather, breasts, freckles, navels, body piercings, smoking, amputees, lactation, shit, pissing, spitting, hands, feet, vomitting, and there is even a sexual fetish for stuffed animals. Really, what guy after watching the movie "Click" is not going to have some dirty thoughts whenever he sees a stuffed toy duck. Personally, I could dig the whole smoking fetish... nothing hotter than a chick lighting up a cigarette after sex. Nothing wrong morally with most fetishes, as long as they do not harm others, some are just strange. That being said, the term for a person who likes to have sex with dead bodies is necrophiliac or necrophile. Currently in the United States there are sixteen states that have specific laws banning necrophila, and Nevada is the only one that has laws that are so airtight, there is next to no possibilities of legal "loopholes." Most of these sixteen states did not even vote to ban necrophila, until after 1979. This was when funeral home worker Karen Greenlee was captured in a funeral home's hearse with a man's dead body that she had been fucking for two days straight, along with a note confessing to having sex with around 40 dead men. I am not even going to tell you that in an interview she stated that she liked to 69 with the bodies... Because that would just be mean of me. Oops. So what was the punishment for having sex with the dead body? Nothing, but for stealing the body and the hearse, she got eleven days in jail, a $255 fine, and was placed on two years probation.
I have a reason for discussing necrophila other than the fact that fetishes are interesting to me, I mean really... what kind of person gets off on wearing diapers and sucking on pacifiers??? The point is this, all throughout history there have been little or no laws anywhere against body snatching. Since the time of ancient Greece, there has been bans on dissecting the human body after death. It was not until mid 1700's that people were allowed to cut open the dead. Back then though, people took two phrases literally... Man was made in god's image, which means to cut open a dead body was the same as cutting open god, and also the ressurection. People used to think (and some still do) that not only your soul will rise, but that your body will literally get up from the grave. Who would want to rise from their grave with their bowels and everything hanging out? With this being the way of thinking, would you want to donate your body to science? Hell no. This was a prevalent problem even through all of the 1800's and early 1900's. Doctor's and medical students needed cadavers desperately... So where did they get them from? A doctor by the name of William Harvey went and dug up the bodies of his dead father and sister to cut open. Considering the fact that he is the one who discovered the circulatory system, I think it was worth it. Being dissected was thought of as worse than death, so many criminals were orded to be disscected after death. For instance if you stole a pig, you would be hung, but if you killed a man, you would be orderd to be hanged and dissected. This did not provide enough bodies for doctors and students though. Both Doctors and medical students would often go and dig up bodies of the recently deceased for use. A lot of medical schools in England and Scotland would allow for students to pay their tuitions in dead bodies. More often than not though, they would turn to professional body snatchers. While grave robbing was considered a serious crime with a severe punishment, there was absolutely nothing legally wrong with stealing a body. The difference being in that grave robbing was stealing valuables from tombs and such. A hole big enough to tear open a part of the casket was all that was needed, then the body was lifted by a rope, and the dirt replaced. This whole process took only about an hour, so this became a very lucrative business. Along with the money paid by physicians, the body snatchers would take some of the flesh to make wallets out of, they would also take the teeth from the cadavers mouth to sell to dentist. The dentist would then use those cadaver's teeth to replace missing teeth in living people. People back then did not care, much like today people don't care that collagen injections used to get rid of wrinkles, comes from either bovine or cadaver flesh.
To be called a surgeon back then was not a big deal either. They were often referred to as "barber surgeons", because most were professional barbers who also did things such as amputations and what not. That is why you see the red and white stripes out side of hair salons. The red represents the blood, while the white represents the bandages. Even in the 1800's it was not uncommon for a person to be deemed a surgeon simply because a family member was, as evident in one of the first malpractice law suits. A man by the name of Bransby Cooper, who was the nephew of famed Sir Astley Cooper, was performing a simple bladder stone removal in an operating theatre. Operating theatres are where the poor had to go, and it was basically a death sentence. The surgeons cared more about showing the procedure to the many medical students standing around then they did about the patients life. The bladder stone was to be removed from a patient named Stephen Pollard, who was a very healthy laborer. A normal bladder stone removal back then took a few minutes. This took place on December 20, 1828, keep in mind there was no such thing as anesthesia or concept of handwashing until the 1860's. Stephen Pollard was on his back on the operating table with his knees to his neck and his hands tied to his feet, for over an hour. The doctor tried using the regular tools, such as a gorget, scoop, and forceps... This was all being inserted into the man's asshole in front of 200 observers. Finally the doctor just started shoving his fingers in there to see if he could locate the stone... Latex gloves did not come around until the 1950's. The doctor even started placing his hands next to the hands of the onlookers to see if anyone had longer fingers. Finally the stone was removed, and Stephen Pollard died 29 hours later of a massive infection. What a way to be remembered. Other atrocites that took place in operating theatres... Let's say that a woman goes in for a minor surgery after anesthia has been invented... Well, since that woman is unconcious, the doctor would have students perform other operations, such as removal of the appendix or tonsils. Unconscious women are also what the students would practice doing pap smears on, since most were uncomfortable with performing it on women that were awake. Well that is it for now... I am off of work.
