I just watched the music video for Naked Ape’s Fashion Freak and it begs the question: is sex with a zombie considered necrophelia? The video depicts the band’s car being swarmed by a group of sexy female zombies: part stripper, part eurotrash, but all very dead and very, very hot. They proceed to wash the car and grind their girly parts in the soapy water in a variety of nefarious ways.
This isn’t the deepest of philosophical questions, but just in case zombieism becomes a reality, I want to be prepared. Are the living dead technically living because their bodies are animated and quite capable of arousing us with bikini car washes and lap dances, or are they dead soley based on the fact that they have died in the past?
I got to thinking about it, and I think it depends on the rules of zombieism being applied. If Night of the Living Dead rules apply and the zombie must die before becoming a mindless flesh-eating drone, then it may be necrophelia. If we’re playing by modern Dawn of the Dead rules, in which the body loses higher brain power and turns the body into a zombie before death occurs, I say they’re fair game. And if you’re going by Dead Alive rules where the zombies are humping each other anyway, well… anything goes as far as I’m concerned.
The question remains: is having died in the past sufficient for saying that someone is dead? If a physical body ceases to live, and then regains characteristics of life in the most basic sense: a heartbeat, lower brain functionality, et cetera, is that a state of being alive or dead? If we consider it alive, is the hot zombie gal, age permitting, fair game or off-limits? Help me understand this deep philosophical issue!
February 13th, 2006 at 1:21 am
I think the real question here is- Judo Upskirts: best video ever?
February 13th, 2006 at 2:22 pm
Really your assertion that the crux of this argument lies on wether an animated zombie is “undeaded” or just “moving deaded” seems to miss a more important point. Sure they may have died once, and now they’re moving and perhaps gesticulating in an amorse way. but the fact is that wether they act hornay or not they are dead. No matter what movie you draw from a major factor in any zombie designation is the loss of functioning organs and the necotizing of the skin and muscles. So unless you got yourself a zombie that has rosey red cheeks and a functioning heart then you sir are just fucking a wiggly corpse.
February 13th, 2006 at 4:19 pm
I don’t want to be sacreligious, but this is the only example I’ve got for this counterpoint: if Jesus had stuck around and had some sex after his ressurrection, would his partner be performing necrophelia? I’m assuming for the sake of argument that the Bible is true and he really did rise from the dead.
I suppose I’d agree that, if the zombie is just a corpse being moved by some sort of metaphysical puppet strings then yes, you’re humping a corpse. But your argument assumes that undead is synonymous with dead. Some say it is, some say it isn’t. The first known use of the word undead was in the original title of Bram Stoker’s Dracula. Since his creator (Bram Stoker) describes Dracula as undead, does this mean that Dracula’s sexual escapes equated to necrophelic rape?