A Necrophiliac's Manifesto

How to properly explain the appeal of the dead? There are many channels one must consider.

First and foremost, I must lay out what I mean by 'necrophilia.' The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition defines it as follows:

necrophilia /nĕk″rə-fĭl′ē-ə/
noun
1. Obsessive fascination with death and corpses.
2. A paraphilia in which sexual gratification is derived from fantasies or acts involving a corpse.
3. A pathological attraction to dead bodies, especially sexual attraction or intercourse.

Of course there are other definitions, the most pertinent of which being from the APA Dictionary of Psychology:

necrophilia
n.
1. sexual interest in or sexual contact with dead bodies. It is a rare paraphilia seen almost exclusively in men. In some cases, they kill the victim themselves, but most frequently they gain access to corpses via funeral parlors, mortuaries, morgues, or graves. Numerous explanations have been offered for the behavior since it was first described by German psychiatrist Richard von Krafft-Ebing (1840–1902) in his 1886 book Psychopathia Sexualis, many of which were psychoanalytically oriented and have now generally been abandoned. More recent explanations have received some empirical support and suggest that necrophilia involves desire for a partner who is incapable of resistance or rejection, desire to exercise power over others as a means of enhancing self-esteem, and desire to counteract feelings of isolation.
2. as described in 1964 by Erich Fromm, an attraction to death, decay, and sickness. He considered this attraction to be a fundamental yet pathological orientation within certain individuals’ characters that reveals itself through increasing tendencies toward greed, narcissism, destruction, cruelty, and murder and a growing attachment to mechanical (i.e., nonliving) artifacts. According to Fromm, necrophilia stems from a person’s desire to compensate for a lack of authenticity and self-identity. —necrophile n. —necrophilic adj.

This, then, is what we will be using as our definition, as it is the most comprehensive and applicible. That established, we must return to our initial line of questioning. What makes the dead so appealing?
Simply put, the same things that make them dead. The stiffness, the lack of motion, of life. The pallor and decay. The chill. All of these combine to make an ideal partner. One who cannot leave, cannot flee, or do anything 'wrong.' One who can be cared for and preserved and loved without worrying of messing up, or any of the interpersonal conflict live lovers come with.

Rigor sets in and you get the stiff, unyeilding flesh, get to break what of that you choose to. And that itself is such a beautiful process. Massaging dead meat until it loosens, getting to touch and feel and manipulate your love. Bend and press and stretch until only the parts you want to be loose are pliable again.

Not only does my love, my lust, go to the grave, it goes beyond it. Let me hold and caretake your corpse, my love. I'll treat it with the sublime reverence you deserve.