La Petit Morte

Watch your freedoms disappear. Now you can't screw corpses in California.

Having sex with corpses is now officially illegal in California after Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed a bill barring necrophilia, a spokeswoman said on Friday. The new legislation marks the culmination of a two-year drive to outlaw necrophilia in the state and will help prosecutors who have been stymied by the lack of an official ban on the practice, according to experts.

"Nobody knows the full extent of the problem. ... But a handful of instances over the past decade is frequent enough to have a bill concerning it," said Tyler Ochoa, a professor at Santa Clara University School of Law who has studied California cases involving allegations of necrophilia. "Prosecutors didn't have anything to charge these people with other than breaking and entering."

Now there's a double entendre even I won't touch. The irony of Schwarzenegger signing this bill is duly noted. Nonetheless, I'd think a bill banning the sexual violation of dead bodies would be the very least controversial bill ever. However, it appears that I'd have thought wrong.

The state's first attempt to outlaw necrophilia, in response to a case of a man charged with having sex with the corpse of a 4-year-old girl in Southern California, stalled last year in a legislative committee.

You've got to be kidding me.