
Show Notes
Where does necrophilia come from? What makes people desecrate corpses? And do you have to be a serial killer to have a death fetish?
Today’s guests are Dr. Victoria Hartmann, a clinical psychology researcher and executive director of the Erotic Heritage Museum in Las Vegas, and neuroscientist and science communicator Dr. Jens Foell.
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