I think “Body Worlds”…

is evil. It does with dead human bodies what we call “Prostitution” with live ones: selling the body for the delectation of the masses. Of course, it’s billed as the “democratization of anatomy”. But the overwhelming number of people who see it come away remembering, not a thing about anatomy (ever hear of “books”) but with the titillated sense that they saw corpses being exploited for show. And soon, our culture that is always seeking to stab the nerve of jaded sexual indulgence back to life will be able to experience new necrophiliac thrills featuring corpses having sex.

Post-Christian culture: inventing brand new forms of evil and selling it as “education”.

UPDATE: Ryan Sayre Patrico at First Things writes:

I wrote this for The Public Square this month:

• Body Worlds, the traveling exhibit of plasticized human bodies, is now devoting an entire show to copulating cadavers. The exhibit will start in Switzerland, because, as the show’s German creator Gunther von Hagens admits, the country was the first that “said from the outset that we could show whatever we wanted.” Back when the show positioned its “plastinates” in strictly non-sexual positions, Thomas S. Hibbs, writing in the New Atlantis, was willing to call the exhibit what it was: “dead-body porn.” Now that this term is more literally true, however, one wonders if the phrase could even be intensified—“dead-body-porn porn,” perhaps.