Delikadesa: Do You Understand What it Means to Have Delikadesa?

We Filipinos are known for our sincere and hospitable nature. We are also known to be superstitious as well as having close knit family ties. The latter may come to be a positive thing or may also be taken as a negative phenomenon.

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Word of the Week: Necrophilia

Necrophilia is the sexual attraction to corpses. The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of the American Psychiatric Association classifies necrophilia as a paraphilia.  

Other terms are: Thanatophilia and Necrolagnia
Related term: Necrochlesis (sex with a corpse)

Definition and derivation found in Wikipedia:

The word is artificially derived from Ancient Greek: νεκρός (nekros; "corpse" or "dead") and φιλία (philia; "friendship"). The term appears to have originated from Krafft-Ebing's 1886 work Psychopathia Sexualis.

Motivations for this behaviors was reviewed by Rosman and Resnick (1989) from 34 cases of necrophilia and the behaviors described in each case. 

The following reasons were what they found:

• desire to possess an unresisting and unrejecting partner 
• reunions with a romantic partner 
• sexual attraction to corpses 
• comfort or overcoming feelings of isolation 
• seeking self-esteem by expressing power over a homicide victim

Some readings online:

1. http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2009-05/28/content_7950768.htm
2. http://potomac9499.wordpress.com/2008/04/09/homosexual-necrophilia-in-the-mallard-duck 
3. http://blogs.discovery.com/criminal_report/2009/03/necrophilia.html
4. http://www.experiencefestival.com/necrophilia/articleindex
5. http://www.jstor.org/pss/1315385
6. http://www.reasonforliberty.com/current-affairs/necrophilia-a-fantasy-obsessive-necrophilia-a-crime.html

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WORD OF THE WEEK: SIBLINGS

As a site concerned for education and development of learning, I am initializing this educational weekly post that hopefully will help people who may be confused about specific words. For instance, the first word in this first installation, Siblings. This word is often mistakenly used by some people to mean " their children", which is not the case. So in order to clarify and to help aid said persons without hurting their feelings, I am initiating this weekly post. As a teacher, it is our role to help people, not insult them in anyway by pointing out their mistakes out-rightly. Instead, we provide them with details and references with which they learn or relearn what they need to learn. This way, they will no longer be embarrassed nor be subject to unfair criticism as well as ridicule by bullies and the grammar sheriffs.

Siblings- By definition, the word Siblings is defined as people who share at least one parent. The male sibling is called  "brother" while the female sibling is called "sister". 

They may grow up together, they may grow up apart. Point of the matter is that they are related with each other. Step sisters and step brothers may still be considered in the same terms for as long as they can be legally supported by adoption, otherwise the term "step-brother" or "step sister" shall be applied.. Countries and cultures vary in this respect, but the essence of being siblings still remains.

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