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These sexy skeletons are a modern twist on an immortal tradition

Whether they’re fondling over a gravestone or canoodling in a bathtub, the figurines are hot Halloween collectibles.

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(Illustration by María Jesús Contreras for The Washington Post)
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Skeletons, it seems, have gone soft.

No longer content to loom over you from a height of 12 feet, the latest en vogue Halloween collectibles are skewing more farcical than fearsome. A skeleton sitting on the toilet, for example, hunched over a laptop or scrolling on a cellphone. (Even death cannot sever us from our screen addictions.) Or two skeletons in an amorous embrace, of which there are many varieties: fondling over a gravestone, in a midair canoodle, in front of a Victorian mirror or in a colorful bubbled tub. Lust of the flesh, as it turns out, does not require flesh.

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