Necrophilia for Good Night

There is an urban myth circulating in Norway, serving as a nice “horror” bed time story.

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The story has a number of variations and it goes something like this. A woman, girl, meets an attractive man. Single and horny, she gets involved with him and it they end up having sexual intercourse. After a few days the heroine falls ill, so she visits a doctor. He makes a serious face and the following diagnosis – vaginal infection with worms which attack decaying corpses. Later the girl finds out that she had slept  with a pathologist from the local hospital, who obviously has sexual intercourse with his "clients".

Sarcophagidae – one of the flies which causes myiasis, particularly in sheep. An egg hatches already after 8 hours.

Vaginal myiasis is in fact confirmed by the scientific community, although there are rare cases of it. In a study on this disease (published in the Infectious Diseases in Obstetrics and Gynecology magazine), there is the case of a pregnant 19-year old girl who was diagnosed with vaginal myiasis, syphilis, genital candidiasis and Trichomonas vaginalis – vaginitis, not to mention the HIV virus. The possibility of flies eggs surviving in the penis of a man who had sexual intercourse with an infected corpse, until another sexual intercourse, is slim. The source of infection could probably be found elsewhere too, but I will not further develop this theory due to good taste.  

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The story, true or fabricated, serves primarily as a warning to girls against having unprotected sexual relations with strange men. Sex can infect you with death; this is probably the most frightening thing to beat into the head of a young girl. Therefore, girls, hairy arms of a man are not always a guarantee for a good catch, and the good doctor may give you a rare infection as well.