Two weeks ago news outlets began circling a story about the Egyptian parliament considering a law that would allow a husband to have sex with his deceased wife’s corpse up to six hours after her death. The news of this ‘Farewell Intercourse’ law was first reported by an Egyptian state-run newspaper, and soon after the international media jumped on the story, but news outlets retracted the story once it became clear that there was no evidence to confirm that a necrophilia law was ever even under discussion in the Egyptian parliament. Svend White writes:
