&gt; I wonder if in another 100 years we&#x27;ll escape our cultural cage and realize it&#x27;s harmless to have sex with a dead child after all.<p>The problem is that dead children are not yet public property, so any defilement becomes an issue of vandalism.<p>Even if the child is subsequently buried on public land and allowed to decay into the earth, any aspiring terraphiliacs would then create a tragedy of the commons problem.<p>Of course, if you&#x27;re Vinod Khosla, you could buy adjacent land, lock a gate, call upon ancient ancestral rights, have your way with the dirt, and tie the case up in the courts for years.