Loving the undead

[danaeris]

Okay, so if you have sex with a dead person, it's called necrophilia.

What is it called if you have sex with an undead person, like a zombie, for instance?

I *think* necro and philia would be greek roots. So...

anecrophilia?

innecrophilia?

nonnecrophilia?

From one website I found:
"Perhaps the greatest surprise to the novice is how at home the vampire feels in Greece, where it is called a vrykolakas.

Other Greek terms for the undead are often wonderfully descriptive and evocative. Among them: "timpanios", which denotes the tight, drum-like skin of a bloated corpse; in Cyprus "sarcomenos", eager or wrathful corpse; in Tinos "anakathoumenos", one who has sat back up: in Kithnos "Alitos", unsolvable or indissoluble; lampasma - a brightness or an entity."

Such specific words. Not quite as general as I had hoped.

Just sayin'. Someone has to ask these important questions!

Comments

[wiseacre.livejournal.com]

ambulanecrophilia

Your suggestions all have, in their prefixes, a negation of the deadness (as does undead--terrible word). It's still necrophilia, but with a special kind of the corpse, one capbable of movement and other functions regular corpses do not have, so ambulanecrophilia it is.

[ex-sonjaaa.livejournal.com]

Anecrophilia would just mean "love without corpses".
Athanatophilia, yes, but most linguists would understand that to mean "love of the immortal".
Ambulanecrophilia = love of the walking dead.

Many languages call undead "living dead", so maybe something based on that is better. Zoothanatophilia? Necrozoontophilia? Actually, necrobiontophobia sounds pretty good.

[wiseacre.livejournal.com]

I think the fact that the undead critters move around rather than just laying there and rotting is their distinquishing characteristic. therefore, I think amulanecrophilia is better because they're not really living but they are definitely moving. Of course, we could just go all literal and use zombiefucker/vampirefucker. Of course it is unlikely to be a word that one has much use for outside of fiction. Heck, I don't think I even know a necrophiliac and they're real. And if I do know one, I don't want to know.Eeeewww.

[caprinus.livejournal.com]

I'm not up on modern Greek ("vrykolakas" is most certainly a recent borrowing from the Slavic words for "werewolf"), but in ancient Greek check out also "lamia" and "haimatopôtês" (blood drinker). However, I'm also not aware of anything like "living dead", so sonjaaa's neologisms are probably the best we can do. I'd suggest some combination of zoo-/bio- and necro-, the general term for corpsey things. There's also skeletos, from "dry, withered".

It's hard to say if zoo- or bio- is better; the words' meanings have flipped from the ancient Greek to today, so that in modern English zoophilia suggests "love of animals", not "love of life in general", opposite of what I think an ancient Athenian might make of it. So technically I'd go with zoo-, but practically bio- is probably the right choice, to avoid connotations of bestiality. Alas, bionecrophilia doesn't sound all that cool.

But how about the notion of "(re)animation"?
Yes, I think there's promise here...

empsu_ch-os: having life in one, animate, [...] e. nekros 'a breathing corpse', (Sophocles, Antigone 1167)

Score! empsuchonecrophilia. How does that work for you?

[dicedork.livejournal.com]

Okay, that's it.


What are you wearing?

;-)

[foms.livejournal.com]

All I know is that homosexual necrophiliacs are in dead Earnest.