Post by JoannaL on Mar 22, 2023 8:59:13 GMT -5
Some Men Just Can't Be Trusted – Even in the Morgue!
In beauty salons, many female waxers have refused to wax male clients because the men act inappropriately toward the ladies providing the service. A lot of female massage therapists are uncomfortable massaging male clients for the same reason. It would seem when a service is up close and personal, men just can’t be trusted to keep it on a professional level. While it is no longer politically correct to classify men as dogs, many, if afforded the slightest opportunity, will make unwelcome and unsolicited advances toward any woman they find even remotely attractive.
This is what led @beetaylora to tweet, “Wait until the men find out that there are waxers [who] ONLY wax women and don’t see male clients because (guess why)? I really want y’all to guess why this might be a thing?”
Other women in various occupations instantly replied providing a plethora of examples of the inappropriate behavior of male clients. One particular tweet caught the attention of author Roxanne Gay, who tweeted, “The rabbit hole I just went down after learning why morgues prefer to hire women. SMH. Put men in rice.”
It’s true, there are morgues that prefer female employees over males because men are dogs and some of them can’t be trusted around women – even dead ones!
One of the hosts of the Keeping It 101 podcast provided some insight concerning men and dead women, observing: “Unfortunately what Roxane Gay has discovered is something that religions, stemming something like [2,000] to 4,000 years ago, have already baked in rules about.” She continued, referencing both Islam and Judaism, wherein there are rules concerning same-sex rituals in the preparation of corpses for burial. One of the reasons for such rules, of course, is modesty, but there is a much more significant consideration, i.e., to protect the female body from “not dead mean.” That’s right: necrophilia.
The long and the short of it is that some men simply cannot be trusted to behave themselves around women – even lifeless women – as evidenced by the number of male morgue and funeral home employees caught diddling the dead. A prime example is Kenneth Douglas, employed by the Hamilton County Morgue in Columbus Ohio, who, after being caught, admitted to sexually violating in excess of 100 female corpses between 1976 and 1992. He was identified through DNA testing of semen found in Karen Range, a 1982 murder victim, after David Steffen, who admitted to killing the 19-year-old woman, emphatically denied raping her.
And it isn’t just corpses of comely young women at risk: In 2007, Anthony Merino, a lab technician at Holy Name Hospital in Teaneck, New Jersey, was caught sexually assaulting the corpse of a 92-year-old woman in the facility’s morgue. And while it is usually women who are violated after death, a few years ago, a gay funeral home employee anonymously admitted to sexually violating the corpses of attractive male youths.
Recently, an employee at Oak Lawn Funeral Home in Pensacola, Florida, committed suicide before he could be arrested for sexually abusing a female corpse. While the National Funeral Directors Association emphasizes there are more than 18,000 funeral homes in the U.S. and cases of necrophilia are rare, this doesn’t mean it isn’t happening. Writing in Forensic Psychiatry, Stephen J. Hucker, M.D., observed that because the taboo practice takes place in privacy, necrophilia may be more prevalent than most believe.
Necrophilia is defined as an erotic attraction to corpses, believed to be motivated by the attempt to gain possession of a compliant or non-rejecting partner. Necrophiliacs are often diagnosed as having a personality disorder, and approximately 10 percent are described as psychotic. The practice isn’t new: in ancient Egypt, some men were said to wait until decomposition was setting in before turning over their dead wives and other female family members to the embalmers.
Sources: Jennifer Tisdale, Distractify, March 17, 2023; Aleks Phillips, Newsweek, January 18, 2023; Dana Dovey, Medical Daily, August 18, 2014; The Columbus Dispatch, December 26, 2013, and David Schoetz, ABC News, February 11, 2009.