ISSN: 0022-1198
CODEN: JFSCA
Page Count: 2

Autoerotic Asphyxial Death Following Television Broadcast
Warren Lovell, F
Assistant medical examiner and chief medical examiner, Ventura County Medical Examiner-Coroner, CA

O'Halloran, RL
Assistant medical examiner and chief medical examiner, Ventura County Medical Examiner-Coroner, CA

Abstract

How individuals who engage in autoerotic asphyxial activities first become aware of its purported erotic potential is debated. The case of an adult male who died from autoerotic asphyxiation shortly after watching a television show that discussed sexual asphyxiation is reported. A request is made that medical examiners and coroners report other accidental autoerotic deaths that are temporally associated with this television broadcast.

Keywords:
pathology and biology, asphyxia, death, deviant sexual behavior, autoerotism, sexual asphyxia

Paper ID: JFS12595J
DOI: 10.1520/JFS12595J
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