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Auto Erotic Asphyxiation

Being into Australian music, I liked the band INXS while I was growing up. The lead singer, Michael Hutchence infamously died in 1997, reportedly from sexual asphyxiation (though suicide was the official cause of death). Such an unfortunate event confirms the danger of this sexual behaviour.

Understanding Asphyxia: A Definition

Asphyxia (from Greek a, "without" and sexuxis, "pulse, heartbeat"). What is Autoerotic Asphyxia (AA)? Although it may have some variations, it is basically the act of hanging oneself in order to cut off oxygen and blood flow to the brain while masturbating. The idea seems to be that the hypoxia (lack of Oxygen) and ischemia (lack of blood flow) can contribute to the intensity of sexual arousal and orgasm.

Almost always, people learn about AA after someone has died from it. Approximately 500 to 1000 people in the U.S. die from it each year. Who practices AA? Generally young, white males of average or above-average intelligence. Often they are socially withdrawn and may dabble in sado-masochism or bondage.

Several factors differentiate an AA hanging from suicidal hanging.

1. The feet are often touching the ground. This enables the practitioner to vary the pressure that the ligature is applying to the neck by lifting his body up or down from the floor.

2. The rope or ligature is often tied in a highly complex manner. This is done to provide an "escape mechanism" to manipulate the pressure on the neck with arms, legs, or torso.

3. The victim will often have padding around the neck to prevent tell-tale bruises and abrasions.

4. Pornography is present.

Understanding Asphyxia: A Definition
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Asphyxiation Games and Teenagers

While asphyxiation games have been around for many years, a series of locally publicized deaths around the U.S. over the last few years, coupled with a realization that teenagers are seeing the game on Internet sites like YouTube, and playing it in more threatening variations - more often, alone with a rope - are sparking a vigorous and open discussion in schools and among parents' groups, summer camp administrators and doctors.

But the exact number remains uncertain because there has been little real research, health professionals say, and because medical examiners have been quick in the past to rule suicide. Some adults might also dismiss the game as the slumber party goof it was in years past, when constriction to the point of death was virtually unheard of.

But attitudes are shifting. Some medical examiners and pediatricians are looking at the increased teenage suicide rate from suffocation over the last decade and questioning whether dozens of deaths listed as suicide might in fact have been accidental, the result of a choking game experience gone wrong. In 2004, according to the most recent figures from the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 779 children between ages 10 and 19 committed suicide by suffocation, up from 400 to 450 per year from the early 1980s through the mid-1990s, when the numbers began to rise.

Asphyxiation Games and Teenagers
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/28/us/28risk.html?ex=1332734400&en=
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