Can I interest you in Ghost Sex?
Horror movies & Spectrophilia 👻
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I just returned from a long weekend at Fantastic Fest, the largest genre film festival in the United States. I watched fun, wild movies with great friends, and officially kicked off spooky season. A lot of horror movies are inherently horny. The films and tv shows I saw last week ranged from the new Pet Semetary (not horny) to The Fall of the House of Usher (a very horny adaptation of Edgar Allen Poe for Netflix). The latter featured a very horny apparition. Horny ghosts in movies isn’t new—there’s Ghost, Ghostbusters, Casper, My Boyfriend’s Back, Life After Beth and many more.
Ghost sex isn’t limited to movies, of course. Last year, a story went viral about a woman in Texas who had a group of horny ghosts haunting her home, and talking dirty to her. She claims to have heard the sexual spirits moaning things like “Oh baby, oh baby, yeah” and “I like it like that.”
If you find yourself into this kind of thing, you might be a spectrophiliac. Spectrophilia is a fetish, classified as a paraphilia, in which one is attracted to ghosts or spirits, and possibly fantasizes about having sex with them. Some people even claim to have experienced ghostly intercourse.
In 2018, a British woman named Amethyst Realm announced that she had become engaged to a poltergeist who she cheated on her husband with. She said the ghost asked her to get married during a trip to celebrate their nine-month relationship, but “there was no going down on one knee — he doesn’t have knees.” Perhaps he made up for his lack of knees with a monster schlong because she also claimed they had sex on the way home, joining the mile high club. In case you’re wondering, she called off the wedding because he kept disappearing.
While I imagine that she was furiously masturbating to Casper in the bathroom, who can say what is real to someone else? It turns out, many people have claimed to have sexual encounters with ghosts. The list includes celebrities, like Anna Nicole Smith, Dan Aykroyd, Lucy Liu, and Kesha (her 2012 song “Supernatural” is about the encounter). Most cultures have their own mythology about ghostly intercourse, most famously the incubus and succubus. First referenced all the way back in Mesopotamia, incubi are male demons who sleep with women and succubi are the demon in female form.
Some accounts of sex with ghosts are linked to sleep paralysis or masturbation, but that doesn’t make the fetish less real. Personally, I had my sexual awakening when Devon Sawa walked down the stairs in Casper. I think Ghost is a super horny movie. I even have some problematic feelings for Beetlejuice, so I choose not to judge anyone’s fetish (as long as it doesn’t hurt anyone). Everyone deserves a chance to handle their unfinished business. Even if it’s on Jet Blue.
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