Comments on: Erotic asphyxia and the limits of the brain

By: Schéhérazade, Sir Henry Head and the Ladybirds | Limpid Lech's finds

Schéhérazade, Sir Henry Head and the Ladybirds | Limpid Lech's finds — Mon, 08 Nov 2010 07:19:28 +0000

[...] Mind Hacks posted on erotic asphyxia. Here’s a review of the literature on autoerotic deaths between 1954 and 2004. Here’s a pdf of the first paper that I could find on this topic (in the British Medical Journal, 1960). After a gruesome description of the circumstances in which four men had died, the authors venture a Freudian hypothesis — somehow, the men wrapped themselves in plastic in order to simulate a return to the womb. (!) Then the authors make a more sensible claim: “A much less elegant and more superficial explanation is that these people were trying to achieve some uindifferentiated thrill or excitement from partial suffocation or anoxia. This factor may have existed but it does not explain the transvestism, sexual arousal, or complete enclosure of the body. It is an interesting reflection that the sexual impulse in man is so protean in its manifestations that a technical advance resulting in a new packaging material can result in a new perverse manifestation.” [...]

By: Psihobrlog preporučuje 28/10/2010 « PsihoBrlog

Psihobrlog preporučuje 28/10/2010 « PsihoBrlog — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 22:04:17 +0000

[...] Erotska asfiksija- namerno ograničavanje dotoka kiseonika u mozak u svrhu postizanja, odnosno pojačavanja seksualnog zadovoljstva. [...]

By: Μικρά και Ενδιαφέροντα #18 | Ψυχολογειν

Μικρά και Ενδιαφέροντα #18 | Ψυχολογειν — Tue, 26 Oct 2010 08:33:15 +0000

[...] Μερικές φορές η ανθρώπινη ανοησία γίνεται η άκρη που ξετυλίγει το κουβάρι της γνώσης. Σε αυτή την κατηγορία ανήκει και η αυτοκτονία ενός άνδρα ο οποίος κρεμάστηκε ενώ αυνανιζόταν (erotic asphyxia). Μετά από έλεγχο στο σπίτι του βρέθηκαν βίντεο που είχε τραβήξει ο ίδιος τα οποία έδειχναν τις προηγούμενες φορές που είχε επιχειρήσει ξανά αυτό το επικίνδυνο ερωτικό παιχνίδι. Σε ορισμένα από αυτά τα βίντεο φαινόταν πως ο άνδρας αυτός είχε συμπτώματα βλάβης στον μεσεγκέφαλο (σπασμούς, “κοκκάλωμα” των καρπών κ.α.) τα οποία όμως δεν του προκαλούσαν μόνιμη βλάβη, κάτι που έρχεται σε αντίθεση στις μέχρι τώρα γνώσεις μας για τις βλάβες του μεσεγκεφάλου… [Mind Hacks] [...]

By: Amy

Amy — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 02:52:11 +0000

Women know that when your toes curl from orgasm, whether by yourself or with a partner… that’s a good one.
I don’t understand the whole wrapping stuff around your neck thing. Why don’t people just hold their breath?
A potential lover once asked me, do you know the most important thing to remember when you’re choking your lover during sex? I said, no, what? He said, to let go….

By: ZDoggMD

ZDoggMD — Sun, 24 Oct 2010 14:56:03 +0000

Erotic autoasphyxiation, phantom penises…this site has officially obtained Most Awesome Blog status in my book and I’m adding it to my blogroll, STAT!

Fascinating article, particularly for a hospitalist such as myself who unfortunately sees a lot of decerebrate rigidity in advanced cases of what we presume are brain death. These cases, however, are usually in the ICU and the patients have persistence of the decerebrate posturing, along with other indications of severe brain injury (EEG findings, etc). Still, this gives one food for thought…

By: Steve Silberman

Steve Silberman — Sun, 24 Oct 2010 01:02:36 +0000

Fascinating as usual.

This topic hits close to home, as my young father suffered a heart attack and the paramedics didn’t arrive for 20 minutes, but then revived him. I wish they hadn’t. He survived for another week in a state that — well, if he had been a dog, someone would have shot him to be kind. Meanwhile, the ER doc refused to give my dad morphine because “he doesn’t have enough brain tissue to feel pain.” There are no words.