When to Seek Medical Care. If you have the signs and symptoms of a coccyx injury or unexplained discomfort in the tailbone area, contact your doctor. It may be necessary for the doctor to decide if the injury is traumatic or if the pain is caused by other, more serious, problems.
Etymology: Gk, nekros + philein, to love. 1 a morbid liking for being with dead bodies. 2 a morbid desire to have sexual contact with a dead body, usually of men to perform a sexual act with a dead woman. necrophile, necrophiliac, n. Sexuoeroticism that hinges on fantasies about or actual sexual interactions with a corpse; the fantasies, sexual urges, or behaviours cause clinically significant distress or impairment in social, occupational, or other important areas of functioning.
1 The Rockabilly subgenre of Psychobilly is full of bands who sing of necrophilia as a main staple of their music. 2  In 1980 artist John Duncan reportedly purchased a body and taped his sex act with it.  In the 1980s and 1990s, necrophilia emerged in the heavy metal sub-genres of death metal, black metal and goregrind.