auto erotic strangulation seems to me to be one of the more embarassing ways to expire. Why would one engage in the actions that lead to this untimely death …i.e. masturbating while obstructing one’s air supply??
The intent is not suicidal, of course, the intent is auto-eroticism. Reduced air supply supposedly causes heightened sensations.
Of course, it’s not very embarrassing for the corpse who’s expired. It’s hell on the family who discovers the body, though.
"scarfing’ I believe it’s called.,
The master speaks.
The odd thing though is how common this seems to be. I mean, as unusual deaths go, this is pretty high up there, and yet, it’s far from uncommon. Odd that people would risk death by hanging to get what probably amounts to a head rush, but there you go.
When I was in college, one student never showed up at home for Christmas break. The R.A.'s that were still around entered his room to see what was up and found him spread eagle on the bed, nude, with a noose a little too tight around his neck. The college newspaper went to great lengths not to discuss the cause of death but word of that scene still got around anyway. I can only imagine that his parents would have to come up with an alternate story (drug overdose, anything) to keep from telling people that forever.
If any of you have HBO, the latest episode of Six Feet Under delt with a victim who died by autoerotic asphyxiation. The surprising thing was that in the scene, the guy put a lemon between in his mouth so that during ejaculation, he’d bite down and not choke himself to death. The lemon, however, fell out, and he died. Anybody have more information on this? Why would biting a lemon help? To keep you from lapsing into unconsiousness?
The lemon probably had amyl nitrate in it, to heighten the sensation further. A British MP (ie congressman) was found dead after trying this method (or perhaps it was the tutu and fishnet stockings he was wearing that tipped him over the edge).
Back to the OP , this was the cause of death of Michael Hutchence, the lead singer of INXS.
That particular episode of Six Feet Under claimed that biting down on the lemon during orgasm would provide a sour enough taste to bring you back to reality before you died. Sounds pretty loopy to me. Kind of like thinking you’d have time to duck during Russian Roulette.
as a matter of fact, the episode of ‘six feet under’ cited dealing with this practice is what brought it to the for front of my mind.
i had the (mis)fortune of perfroming community service a few years back at a medical examiners office and i took the liberty to look through some of the files. This cause of death occurs frequent enough to be a concern it seems, but is rarely disclosed publicly. What im interested in knowing is the benefits of ‘scarfing’
over less dangerous forms of self pleasure.
is one drawn to this practice out of psychological reasons (self sadism) or are there incredibly intense physiological sensations that make it something to get ‘choked up’ over?
Back to the OP , this was the cause of death of Michael Hutchence, the lead singer of INXS.
I think this has been debunked, given Hutchence’s depression over his relationship with his wife, Bob Geldoff, and his children. From what I can recall, he was pretty loaded on anti-depressants and the M.E. ruled that his death was a suicide (not an accident as a result of auto-erotic strangulation).