Baudelaire lowkey said the same thing about a corpse in one of his poems (Danse Macabre). He was basically saying "come on, everyone finds corpses hot once in a while, and if you pretend you don't you're just acting superior or you're a pussy". I read that in high school and was like NO CHARLES IT'S JUST YOU
Excerpts from the english translation (bear in mind this is about a CORPSE):
Did one ever see a slimmer waist at a ball?
The funereal charms that she's anxious to hide.
Some, lovers drunken with flesh, will call you
A caricature; they don't understand
The marvelous elegance of the human frame.
You satisfy my fondest taste, tall skeleton!
Still goading your living carcass
Urge you on, credulous one, toward Pleasure's sabbath?
And do you come to ask of the flood of orgies
To cool the hell set ablaze in your heart?
Inexhaustible well of folly and of sins!
To tell the truth, I fear your coquetry
Will not find a reward worthy of its efforts;
Which of these mortal hearts understands raillery?
The charms of horror enrapture only the strong!
Yet who has not clasped a skeleton in his arms,
Who has not fed upon what belongs to the grave?
What matters the perfume, the costume or the dress?
He who shows disgust believes that he is handsome.
Noseless dancer, irresistible whore,
I'll stop there... There's also that one poem (à celle qui est trop gaie) where he says about a woman "Wow you're so pretty!! One of these nights I'll sneak into your room and stab you and I'll cum in the wound and it will be soooo hot"
You know, I'm all against censorship. Before reading Les Fleurs du Mal for school, I was told the first version was censored, and I thought, eh, people must have been fucking prudes in the 1800s, it can't be that bad... It was that bad. That's why school told us to get the censored version. But hey, I already had the uncensored one at home. So 16 year old me discovered necrophilia thanks to french public school. The french class was taught by a stuck up catholic guy too lmfao, only in here does shit like this happen, vive la République et vive la France