Erotic Asphyxiation: Difference between revisions

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[[File:cheryl 6596.png|link=Archer|frame|"[[Nightmare Fetishist|Look at me! Look at and choke me!]]"]]

 

{{quote|'''Sex Addiction Therapist:''' Most likely, you'll end up going the way of David Carradine and Michael Hutchence: Autoerotic Asphyxiation.

'''Kenny:''' Autoerotic asphyxiation? What's that?

'''Therapist:''' I don't want to go into too much detail but -- you choke yourself with a belt around your neck while masturbating dressed up like Batman or something then you pass out from lack of air and apparently it makes your orgasm super awesome.

 

"Intentionally cutting off oxygen to the brain for sexual arousal", to quote [[The Other Wiki]]. A general term for sex acts that involves either restricting one's own breathing for intensified sensations during masturbation or one party restraining the breathing of another. Needless to say, this particular paraphilia includes all the risks associated with asphyxiation, including fatalities. Thus it's generally considered to fail the "safe" part of [[Safe, Sane, and Consensual]]. Sometimes it will be a plot point that what at first appears to be a masturbation session gone wrong is actually a disguised murder.

 

Not to be confused with [[Marshmallow Hell]]. Related to [[Out with a Bang]], if you do it wrong. Possibly related to [[Too Dumb to Live]], in any case. Sometimes used to promote the idea that [[Bondage Is Bad]].

 

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* In the ''[[Full Metal Panic!]]'' novels, Gauron once had a thing with a female scientist and strangled her. They both seemed to get off on it, as Gauron even lampshades it by mocking her, asking her if she actually likes making him angry, and actually wants him to hurt her. He says this with a perfect mixture of "coldness and joy," and she responds by gasping with "pain and ecstasy."

* In an early ''[[Cutey Honey]]'' episode Honey, dressed as a fireman, is attacked by a mook that attempts to strangle her causing the very phallic looking hose she is holding to start spraying.

 

== Film ==

* ''[[Killing Me Softly]]'', a grade B sex-drama, featured Joseph Fiennes tying Heather Graham into a rig that used yards and yards of silk to induce erotic asphyxiation. Of course, this was him getting off on strangling her while they screwed, not her getting off on getting strangled...

* In ''[[The World Is Not Enough]]'', Electra mentions that a man being throttled to death will get [[Raging Stiffie|an erection]] and straddles Bond's waist as she turns the screws on him.

* Hayden Christensen does this in ''[[Life As A House]]''.

* In ''[[World's Greatest Dad]]'', [[Robin Williams|Lance Clayton]]'s son dies this way. (Not much of a spoiler, since every single article about this movie talked about it).

* A very explicit and disturbing example in ''[[Ken Park]]''.

* ''[[The Ruling Class]]'' begins with a lord's family having to cover up the fact that he died in such an incident. In a tutu. Also dressed up (above the waist) like Napoleon.

 

== Comics ==

* In ''[[Strangers in Paradise]]'', [[Broken Bird|Katchoo]] is often seen doing this to [[Depraved Bisexual|Darcy]] in various flashbacks.

* In ''[[Starman (comics)|Starman]]'', the ghost of the Black Pirate describes the sensation of being hanged and says you start to feel sleepy, but everything's awake below the waist. Jack admits that he's actually experienced this with an ex-girlfriend. The ghost then asks if Jack's experienced what happens ''next'', when ''everything'' goes to sleep, and Jack obviously hasn't.

 

 

== Literature ==

* ''[[Naked Lunch]]'': William Burroughs has a habit of writing scenes where teenage boys very sensually get their necks broken via noose.

* In ''[[Filth (novel)|Filth]]'' by [[Trainspotting|Irvine Welsh]], the protagonist Bruce Robertson does this several times with [[Casanova|one of his many girlfriends]]. He first tries it after having failed to save a man from (non-erotic) suffocation. Even though Bruce does not die from erotic asphyxiation {{spoiler|it is a bit of [[Foreshadowing]], because he ends up committing suicide by hanging himself}}.

* In ''[[The Silence of the Lambs|Hannibal]]'', [[Complete Monster|Mason Verger]] was into this, but it backfired when Hannibal tricked Verger into cutting his face off and feeding it to his dogs while high out of his mind, and then used the setup to hang him. Verger survived, but horribly maimed and paralyzed.

 

* ''[[Six Feet Under]]'' had an opener death like this.

* On ''[[The X-Files]]'', Clyde Bruckman (who can see how anyone will die) implies that Mulder will die this way.

 

== Music ==

* Played for very [[Black Comedy]] in [[Mitch Benn]]'s "Auto-Erotic Asphyxiation":

{{quote|Was it a tragic accident or was it suicide,

 

== Theatre ==

* In ''[[Waiting for Godot]]'', while debating possible ways to pass the time, one of the protagonists suggests hanging themselves to get an erection.

 

== Video Games ==

* Happens with you and Mizuki in ''[[Yume Miru Kusuri]]''.

* In ''[[Silent Hill: Shattered Memories]]'', "the Choking Game" (which is, if not erotic, at least recreational) is apparently a bit of a fad at Midwich High School, and several students have died doing it.

 

* ''[[Theater Hopper]]'' had some people wondering why Vader was strapped to a table in the first ''[[Revenge of the Sith]]'' trailer, and wondered it he liked that stuff, supporting it with him wearing leather, and that he likely choked officers for this trope.

* ''[[Other Peoples Business]]'': Shown as a part of Leon and Collin's violent relationship.

 

== Western Animation ==

* ''[[Family Guy]]'':

** Michael Hutchence's death is alluded to in a cutaway gag.

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