Necrophilia, a university professor in Egypt: "lawful sex with a dead wife"

   

Necrophilia is a rare sexual perversion in which orgasm is achieved through acts, heterosexual or homosexual, performed on a corpse. According to Erich Fromm, the same term is also used for someone who has a malignant aggression that induces the destructive-aggressive drive (which is also found in the attitude of the sadist) whose desire is to transform a person into an object, into an element of possession, to make it become a "thing" on which to exercise one's despotic and oppressive will. For the sadist, annihilating the other is the greatest joy that goes beyond the pleasure of inflicting suffering. From this perspective, what Fromm defines as a necrophilic attitude is outlined where the tendency of life is progressively reduced until it becomes inanimate: this love and this tendency towards the inanimate is defined by Fromm as necrophilia.

In this regard, a professor of the Islamic University Al Azhar in Cairo has launched a very controversial fatwa and opposed by the Islamic world itself.

"Death does not interrupt marriage, so it is absolutely permissible to have sexual relations with the corpse of one's wife". The fatwa bears the signature of Sabry Abd Arraouf, professor of Islamic jurisprudence at the prestigious Islamic Al Azhar University in Cairo. And it was announced during a religious transmission of a private channel. This is a relationship allowed as it is his wife and therefore the author should not be accused of anything. Although few men want to consume this last love affair, Arraouf explained. The fatwa has sparked numerous controversies not only in Egypt but also in the rest of the Arab world. The Al Azhar University has opened a proceeding against the teacher and, yesterday, the Great Council for the organization of communication has decided to banish the wise from all the televisions and radios. "A decision dictated by the fact that such fatawa damage Islam, the good behavior of Muslims and lack respect for the dead," said the president of the Grand Council, Moukarram Ahmad Mohammad.