Lee Mellor | |
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| Birth name | Lee Philip Mellor |
| Born | August 4, 1982 Chester, Cheshire, England |
| Website | www.leemellor.com |
Lee Mellor (born August 4, 1982 in Chester, England) is an Anglo-Canadian author, scholar, criminologist and songwriter.
Mellor attended Bowmanville High School and then earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in history and Doctorate of Philosophy in the interdisciplinary study of homicide and sex crime from Concordia University, in 2009 and 2019, respectively.
Mellor's first book, Cold North Killers: Canadian Serial Murder , was released on March 3, 2012, by Dundurn Press. The true crime work documents and analyzes the phenomenon of serial homicide in Canada, providing over 60 cases as examples. He researched 75 serial homicides but did not include them all because of limited space in the book. [1]
A second volume on Canadian multicide, Rampage: Canadian Mass Murder and Spree Killing, was released on March 9, 2013.
In academia, Mellor co-edited the textbook Homicide: A Forensic Psychology Casebook (2016) with Joan Swart for which he also penned the Introduction along with chapters on homicidal paraphilia, necrophilia, sexual sadism, and psychopathy. [2]
In 2017, Mellor co-authored The Crime Book volume with American crime writers Shanna Hogan, Rebecca Morris, Cathy Scott, and British author Michael Kerrigan, with a foreword for the U.S. edition by Scott and the U.K. edition by author Peter James. [3] It was released in April 2017 in the U.K. and May 2017 in the U.S. by Dorling Kindersley (Penguin Random House).
He is also the primary editor of Understanding Necrophilia: A Global Multidisciplinary Approach (2017) with Anil Aggrawal and Eric W. Hickey. His chapters "Wider Shades of Pale" and "Mincing Words" examine flaws in the current definition of necrophilia and argue for an expansion of the concept to include acts of sexually motivated post-mortem mutilation, posing, and "trophy-taking", as well as certain types of cannibalism and vampirism. [4] In "Necrophilia-Spectrum Behavior and the Thematic-Derivative Model of Sexual Progression", Mellor offers a model which charts both normophilic and paraphilic sexual interests, using the case of Armin Meiwes as an example. [4] His "Five Allures of Necrophilia" proposes that there are five basic appeals of necrophilia: passivity/inertia, corporeal/sensory, reminiscent/identity, ritual/iconographic, and spiritual/magical. [4]
Mellor was editor-in-chief of the e-magazine Serial Killer Quarterly to which he regularly contributed articles, along with fellow true crime writers Harold Schechter, Peter Vronsky, Katherine Ramsland, Michael Newton, Cathy Scott, Burl Barer, Carol Anne Davis, and Robert Hoshowsky.
In October 2019 Mellor began a six-part lecture series 'Murder in VR' on the topic of homicide in virtual reality. The series was hosted on the Sansar social VR platform. [5]
As a musician, Mellor has been spotlighted and interviewed on CBC Radio, and in 2007 was voted among the top 10 singer-songwriters in Montreal. [6] By the 2008 poll he had risen to No. 3 singer-songwriter in the city, behind Leonard Cohen and Rufus Wainwright. [7]
Mellor's debut album Ghost Town Heart was released independently on August 18, 2007. He is known for coining the term "citygrass" to describe Montreal's emerging alternative country scene. [8]
In 2010, while working on his second album, Mellor also produced and played on Montreal singer-songwriter Roses's self-titled debut EP. [9] A music video for "Suzy Blue Eyes" from his second album Lose was officially released on YouTube in early 2011. [10]
Lose, described by Mellor as an album he made "for himself," followed shortly after on April 30, 2011. [11]
Mellor also produced Kristen Bussandri's "Diamonds to Dust" EP, released July 2011. [12]
A paraphilia is an experience of recurring or intense sexual arousal to atypical objects, places, situations, fantasies, behaviors, or individuals. It has also been defined as a sexual interest in anything other than a legally consenting human partner. Paraphilias are contrasted with normophilic ("normal") sexual interests, although the definition of what makes a sexual interest normal or atypical remains controversial.
Ageplay or age play is a form of roleplaying in which an individual acts or treats another as if they are a different age. Ageplay is roleplaying between adults, and involves consent from all parties. Ageplay is not necessarily sexual, but can be. Portraying any age can be the goal of ageplay, from babies to a child to the elderly. Usually this involves someone pretending to be younger than they actually are, but more rarely can involve assuming an older role.
Emetophilia, also known as Roman shower, is the sexual arousal from vomiting, being vomited on or watching others vomit. The fetish is considered a paraphilia.
Lust murder, also called sexual homicide, is a homicide which occurs in tandem with either an overt sexual assault or sexually symbolic behavior. Lust murder is associated with the paraphilic term erotophonophilia, which is sexual arousal or gratification contingent on the death of a human being. The term lust killing stems from the original work of Richard von Krafft-Ebing in his 1898 discussion of sadistic homicides. Commonly, this type of crime is manifested either by murder during sexual activity, by mutilating the sexual organs or areas of the victim's body, or by murder and mutilation. The mutilation of the victim may include evisceration, displacement of the sexual organs, or both. The mutilation usually takes place postmortem. Although the killing sequence may include an act of sexual intercourse, sexual intercourse does not always occur, and other types of sexual acts may be part of the homicide.
A date rape drug is any drug that incapacitates another person and renders that person vulnerable to sexual assault, including rape. The substances are associated with date rape because of reported incidents of their use in the context of two people dating, during which the victim is sexually assaulted or raped or suffers other harm. However, substances have also been exploited during retreats, for example ayahuasca retreats. The substances are not exclusively used to perpetrate sexual assault or rape, but are the properties or side-effects of substances normally used for legitimate medical purposes. One of the most common incapacitating agents for date rape is alcohol, administered either surreptitiously or consumed voluntarily, rendering the victim unable to make informed decisions or give consent.
Dacryphilia is a form of paraphilia in which one is aroused by tears or sobbing.
Nose fetishism, nose partialism, or nasophilia is the partialism for the nose. This may include the sexual attraction to a specific form of physical variation of appearance, or a specific area. The fetish may manifest itself in a desire for actual physical contact and interaction, or specific fantasies such as the desire to penetrate the nostrils with a penis, tongue, or with a finger. Nose fetishism can also include the desire to ejaculate into the nostrils or onto the nose. Some people with this fetish masturbate while looking at someone with a nose they find extremely attractive. Some people with this fetish also enjoy pinching someone's nose so that they open their mouths to breathe.
Auto-vampirism is a form of vampirism that refers to drinking one's own blood, typically as a form of sexual gratification. As a mental disorder, this is also called as autohemophagia, which is derived from three Greek words: auto, which means "self"; hemo, for "blood"; and, phag, meaning "to eat". Although closely related to vampirism, the two differ in that vampirism is a sadistic act while auto-vampirism is on the side of masochism. Along with drinking their own blood, most practitioners of auto-vampirism also engage in self-harm in order to obtain the blood.
Consensual tickling or tickling fetish refers to any instance of tickling in which the party being tickled has given consent to the party providing the tickling to do so. Some people find tickling to be an erotic experience. They may prefer to be the dominant (tickling) party or the submissive (tickled) party, or they may enjoy both. The people in these roles are often referred to as the "tickler" and the "ticklee" respectively. Some people may prefer to be tickled in specific areas, usually erogenous zones or other particularly sensitive areas of the skin.
Partialism is a sexual fetish with an exclusive focus on a specific part of the body other than genitals. Partialism is categorized as a fetishistic disorder in the DSM-5 of the American Psychiatric Association only if it causes significant psychosocial distress for the person or has detrimental effects on important areas of their life. In the DSM-IV, it was considered a separate paraphilia, but was merged into fetishistic disorder by the DSM-5. Individuals who exhibit partialism sometimes describe the anatomy of interest to them as having equal or greater erotic attraction for them as do the genitals.
Karen T. Taylor is an American forensic and portrait artist who has worked to help resolve criminal cases for a variety of law enforcement agencies throughout the world. Her primary expertise includes composite imagery, child and adult age progression, postmortem drawing and forensic facial reconstruction. In the mid-1980s, Taylor pioneered the method of 2-dimensional facial reconstruction, by drawing facial features over frontal and lateral skull photographs based on anthropological data. Taylor is also well-established as a forensic art educator, fine art portrait sculptor, and specialist in the human face.
Necrophilia, also known as necrophilism, necrolagnia, necrocoitus, necrochlesis, and thanatophilia, is sexual attraction or acts involving corpses. It is classified as a paraphilia by the World Health Organization (WHO) in its International Classification of Diseases (ICD) diagnostic manual, as well as by the American Psychiatric Association in its Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM).
Courtship disorder is a theoretical construct in sexology developed by Kurt Freund in which a certain set of paraphilias are seen as specific instances of anomalous courtship instincts in humans. The specific paraphilias are biastophilia, exhibitionism, frotteurism, telephone scatologia, and voyeurism. According to the courtship disorder hypothesis, there is a species-typical courtship process in humans consisting of four phases, and anomalies in different phases result in one of these paraphilic sexual interests. According to the theory, instead of being independent paraphilias, these sexual interests are individual symptoms of a single underlying disorder.
Mechanophilia is a paraphilia involving a sexual attraction to machines such as bicycles, cars, helicopters, and airplanes.
Necrophilia is a pathological fascination with dead bodies, which often takes the form of a desire to engage with them in sexual activities, such as intercourse. Though prohibited by the laws of many countries, there have been many reported cases of sexual abuse of dead bodies throughout history.
Joan Swart is a South African psychologist, author, consultant and researcher. Dr. Swart has completed a Masters in Forensic Psychology at the HLC-accredited Walden University and a doctorate at the BPPE-approved Eisner Institute for Professional Studies, based in Encino, California. She is currently a consultant and researcher at the Apsche Institute, based in Leesburg, Virginia.
Sergeant François Bertrand (1823–1878), known as the Vampire of Montparnasse, was a sergeant in the French Army. He was arrested in 1849 for necrophilia and jailed for one year. In 1856, he moved to Le Havre. In his later life, he worked as clerk, mailman, and lighthouse keeper. He died on 25 February 1878.
Michael Andrew Arntfield is a Canadian academic, author, criminologist, true crime broadcaster and podcaster, a professor at the University of Western Ontario, and a Fulbright scholar. He is also a workplace violence harassment consultant, threat assessor, and former police officer. From 1999 to 2014, Arntfield was employed with the London, Ontario, Police Service as a police officer and detective. In 2014, Arntfield left policing to accept a customized academic appointment at the University of Western Ontario. Today, Arntfield teaches "literary criminology," a term he adopted combined English literature and crime studies program.
Karen Margaret Greenlee is an American criminal who was convicted of stealing a hearse and having sex with the corpse it contained. She is considered as the "best-known modern practitioner of necrophilia", and her case was the subject of much research due to her sex as only ten percent of known necrophiles are women, as well as because of the highly detailed interview she gave about her extensive practice of necrophilia in the anthology book Apocalypse Culture.
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