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Autoerotic asphyxiation, or AEA, is the practice of self-strangulation, typically by the use of a ligature, while masturbating in order to heighten the sexual pleasure as more endorphines are produced when the body reaches the near state of asphyxia. While highly pleasurable, AEA is also an extremely dangerous practice that results in many accidental deaths each year. A small number of people doing AEA use a plastic bag over their head, but most prefer the strangulation method. Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Erotic asphyxiation, asphyxiophilia, breath control play or scarfing is the sexual practice of partial asphyxiation by strangulation or suffocation of one person by another during sexual intercourse. ... In medicine, a ligature is a device, similar to a tourniquet, usually of thread or string, tied around a limb, blood vessel or similar to restrict blood flow. ... // Masturbation is the manual excitation of the sexual organs, most often to the point of orgasm. ... Endorphins are endogenous opioid biochemical compounds. ... Suffocation redirects here, for the band, see Suffocation (band). ...

Deaths often occur when the loss of consciousness caused by partial asphyxia leads to loss of control over the means of strangulation, resulting in continued asphyxia and death. Victims are often found to have rigged some sort of "rescue mechanism" which has not worked in the way they anticipated as they lost consciousness.

It has also been speculated that in some cases autoerotic asphyxiation may have triggered the little-known phenomenon of carotid sinus reflex death. Arteries of the neck. ...

Famous cases

It is a popular subject in tabloids and celebrity gossip magazines, particularly when a celebrity dies as a result of suicide or other mysterious circumstances. Such was reputedly the case with the deaths of Michael Hutchence (in 1997) and Japanese rock-star Hide (in 1998), though no evidence to support the claim was produced in any of those cases. Newspaper sizes in August 2005. ... Suicide (from Latin sui caedere, to kill oneself) is the act of willfully ending ones own life. ... Michael Kelland John Hutchence (January 22, 1960 – November 22, 1997) was the lead singer of the Australian rock band, INXS. // Biography Michael was born in Sydney, but was subsequently raised in Hong Kong. ... hide with his trademark pink hair Hideto Matsumoto (松本 秀人 Matsumoto Hideto, December 13, 1964–May 2, 1998 in Yokosuka, Japan), or hide (pronounced /ˈhidɛ/), was a Visual Kei J-Rock musician. ...

The artist Vaughn Bodé died from this cause in 1975. Vaughn Bodé (July 22, 1941 - July 18, 1975), was an influential artist involved in and inspirational to underground comics, graphic design, and graffiti. ...

The death in 1994 of Stephen Milligan, the British Conservative MP for Eastleigh, was a case of auto-erotic asphyxiation combined with self-bondage. Stephen Milligan (May 12, 1948 - February 7, 1994) was a British politician and journalist. ... Self-bondage is the practice of sexual bondage without a partner; that is to say, tying or otherwise restraining oneself for the purpose of sexual pleasure. ...

AEA claims the lives of between 250 and 1,000 young American men each year ^{[citation needed]}. The participants are most often white, middle class males under the age of 30 with no outstanding history of mental illness ^{[citation needed]}.

A more recent case is the death in 2004 National Front member Kristian Etchells. [1][2] In the United Kingdom, the British National Front (most commonly called the National Front or NF) is an far right political party that had its heyday during the 1970s and 1980s. ...

Recent court cases have come to varied results as to whether the unintentional death resulting from autoerotic asphyxiation falls under the "self-induced injury" clause of standard life insurance policies, which prevents payouts for suicide. In June of 2003, one US court said the intent was not death and therefore the case was an accident [3], while another in August 2003 said it does technically fall within the terms since death is the logical result of asphyxiation [4]. It has been suggested that Life assurance be merged into this article or section. ...

Cultural references

Autoerotic asphyxiation is key to the plots of many books, movies, and TV shows. Included is an accidental death in the film The Ruling Class (1972), starring Peter O'Toole, as well as the movies Ken Park and Full Frontal, the Thomas Harris novel Hannibal, the P. D. James novel An Unsuitable Job for a Woman, the Erika Barr book Acquisition of Power (ISBN 1591293073), a 2002 episode of the HBO television series Six Feet Under, the US version of Queer as Folk, a 2005 episode of the CBS television series CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, an episode of the League of Gentlemen and is mentioned and talked about in the 2005 George Carlin HBO Special Life is Worth Losing. In the movie "Life As A House" the main character Sam (Hayden Christensen) is depicted indulging in autoerotic asphyxiation in the first few scenes. In the X-Files episode "Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose" (first aired Friday, October 13, 1995), the psychic Bruckman (played by Peter Boyle, who won an Outstanding Guest Actor Emmy for the part) implies that Special Agent Fox Mulder will die of AEA. In December of 2005, Dane Cook who hosted Saturday Night Live, played a character whose wife told his loved ones that he had died of AEA instead of an embarrassing karaoke accident. The Ruling Class - Wikipedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ... Peter OToole (center) with Roger Ebert (left) and Jason Patric (right) at the 2004 Savannah Film Festival Peter Seamus OToole (born August 2, 1932) is a British-born film and stage actor of Irish descent. ... Ken Park is a controversial yet popular2002 film with a screenplay adapted by Harmony Korine from stories by Larry Clark, and directed by Larry Clark and Edward Lachman. ... Full Frontal is a film by Steven Soderbergh, about a day in the life of people in Hollywood. ... Thomas Harris. ... Hannibal is a 2001 film, directed by Ridley Scott, adapted from the Thomas Harris novel of the same name. ... Phyllis Dorothy James, Baroness James of Holland Park OBE (born 3 August 1920) is an English writer of crime fiction and member of the House of Lords, who writes as P. D. James. ... Categories: Literature stubs | 1972 books | Books starting with U | Mystery novels ... Six Feet Under was a popular and critically acclaimed American television drama produced by HBO. It first aired on June 3, 2001 and concluded its fifth and final season on August 21, 2005. ... Queer as Folk was an American/Canadian television series co-production, produced by Showtime and Temple Street Productions, which was based on the British series of the same name created by Russell T. Davies. ... CSI: Crime Scene Investigation is a popular Alliance Atlantis/CBS police procedural television series, running since October 2000, about a team of forensic scientists. ... See: The League of Gentlemen (novel), by John Boland The League of Gentlemen (film) starring Jack Hawkins and made in 1959. ... George Dennis Carlin (born May 12, 1937) is a Grammy-winning American stand-up comedian, actor, and author, noted especially for his irreverent attitude and his observations on language, psychology and religion along with many taboo subjects. ... Life is Worth Losing is the name of a George Carlin stand-up comedy special that aired on the Home Box Office channel on Saturday, November 5, 2005. ... X-Files intro from first 8 seasons The X-Files was a popular 1990s American science fiction television series created by Chris Carter. ... Peter Boyle (born October 18, 1935, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an American actor. ... An Emmy Award. ... Fox William Spooky Mulder (born October 13, 1961) is a fictional character played by David Duchovny on the 1993-2002 television series, The X-Files. ... Dane Cook on his comedy album Retaliation Dane Jeffrey Cook (born March 18, 1972 in Cambridge, Massachusetts) is an American stand-up comedian and screen actor. ... Saturday Night Live (SNL) is a weekly late-night 90-minute American comedy-variety show based in New York City which has been broadcast by NBC nearly every Saturday night since its debut on October 11, 1975. ...

It is also mentioned in the UK Channel 4 TV show "Peep Show", when Jez says "I'm so bored, dangerously bored, I even considered doing that thing that Michael Hutchence and that MP did".

External links

• BBC News story about the death of Stephen Milligan
• Information on the practice of autoerotic asphyxia