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{{quote|''The only motive that there ever was was to completely control the person - the person I found physically attractive - and keep them with me for as long as possible. Even if it meant just keeping a part of them.''|'''Jeffery Dahmer'''}}

A character has a... physical relationship with a severed body part of some sort, taken off some person. This is about the most pleasant way of putting ~~things -- for~~ obvious reasons, this trope induces some ''very'' heavy [[Squick]], and is usually a sign that the character is quite severely disturbed.

A character has a... physical relationship with a severed body part of some sort, taken off some person. This is about the most pleasant way of putting things—for obvious reasons, this trope induces some ''very'' heavy [[Squick]], and is usually a sign that the character is quite severely disturbed.

See also [[I Love the Dead]], [[Mummies At the Dinner Table]] and the more literal examples of being [[Stuffed Into the Fridge]].

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== Film ==

* Before the action starts in ''[[High Tension|Haute Tension]]'', the apparent antagonist is seen in his truck getting fellated by a disembodied head.

* The [[Villain Protagonist~~|Villain Protagonists~~]] in slasher flick ''[[August Underground]]'s Mordem'' make one of their victims cut off his own penis so they can stick it into his girlfriend.

* The [[Villain Protagonist]]s in slasher flick ''[[August Underground]]'s Mordem'' make one of their victims cut off his own penis so they can stick it into his girlfriend.

* The film version of [[Re-Animator]] had Barbara Crampton straddling an undead head. (But it was the head's idea.)

* The [[So Bad It's Good]] horror film ''[[Bloodsucking Freaks]]'' has a depraved dwarf use a severed head to fellate himself.

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{{quote|"Ah! thou wouldst not suffer me to kiss thy mouth, Iokanaan. Well! I will kiss it now."}}

** Christian tradition from the 4th century was that Salome asked for his death because he spurned her. (And probably factually inaccurate: according to the Jewish historian Josephus, Antipas executed John for political reasons.)

* The tale of ''Isabella and the Pot of Basil'' from [[Giovanni Boccaccio|Boccaccio]]'s ''[[The Decameron|Decameron]]'' (and later on, a [[John Keats|Keats]] poem) tells of the titular character preserving the head of her lover inside the aforementioned pot. 19th and 20th century depictions such as those painted by Prerraphaelites like [[wikipedia:Isabella and the Pot of Basil|William Holman Hunt]], [http://www.johnwilliamwaterhouse.com/pictures/isabella-and-the-pot-of-basil-1907.html Waterhouse] or [[wikipedia:Image~~%3AIsabella~~ and the Pot of Basil.jpg|John White Alexander]] fall squarely in this trope.

* The tale of ''Isabella and the Pot of Basil'' from [[Giovanni Boccaccio|Boccaccio]]'s ''[[The Decameron|Decameron]]'' (and later on, a [[John Keats|Keats]] poem) tells of the titular character preserving the head of her lover inside the aforementioned pot. 19th and 20th century depictions such as those painted by Prerraphaelites like [[wikipedia:Isabella and the Pot of Basil|William Holman Hunt]], [http://www.johnwilliamwaterhouse.com/pictures/isabella-and-the-pot-of-basil-1907.html Waterhouse] or [[wikipedia:Image:Isabella and the Pot of Basil.jpg|John White Alexander]] fall squarely in this trope.

* Subverted in the ''[[Black Dagger Brotherhood]]'', Zsadist keeps a skull in his room. The skull being {{spoiler|the skull of his former owner, who he killed and cut the head off of to make sure she was dead.}} He keeps the skull around so he can remind himself that she's dead, often by stroking it.

* In ''[[Discworld/Lords and Ladies|Lords and Ladies]]'', a portrait of Lancrian Queen Ynci the Short-Tempered shows, "One hand ... caressed the hand of a captured enemy warrior. The rest of the captured enemy warrior was hanging from various pine trees in the background."

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* The page image is from ''[[Contemplating Reiko]]''

* [[Oglaf]] [http://oglaf.com/salome/1/ did a take on this] which involved an adult [[The Bible|Salome]] secretly making out with a severed head presented to her with the intention of mocking her adolescent follies.

* In ''[[Homestuck]]'', Gamzee finds the dead body of Tavros, who had been one of his best friends in life, and with whom he was in love. He rips off his head and is then shown [[Flash Step~~|Flash Stepping~~]] back and forth, kissing it and covering his mouth with Tavros's brown blood.

* In ''[[Homestuck]]'', Gamzee finds the dead body of Tavros, who had been one of his best friends in life, and with whom he was in love. He rips off his head and is then shown [[Flash Step]]ping back and forth, kissing it and covering his mouth with Tavros's brown blood.