Image via Flickr Commons. Erotic asphyxiation, or EA, is a sexual act that involves suffocation. You probably know that already. How to get to that point is up to the individual. Rope, hands, bags, cling-film, water—the method can be chosen to suit the desired effect. For some, this is just the thrill of being dominated with a hand on the throat, for others the sensation of oxygen being cut off from the brain heightens the intensity of an orgasm.
Erotic Asphyxiation: The Widespread and Potentially Fatal Fetish That Nobody Will Talk About - VICE
Reprinted From Nerve. I have executed myself. Indeed, it was not murder, nor was it suicide. It was autoerotic asphyxia: a climax-intensifying chokehold, taken a step too far. Those who self-strangle do it in order to heighten orgasm by constricting the flow of blood to the brain during masturbation. The practitioners of this behavior, nearly all male, tighten a belt around their necks or suspend themselves by a noose, often using a closet rail, rafter or tree.
Erotic asphyxiation variously called asphyxiophilia , hypoxyphilia or breath control play is the intentional restriction of oxygen to the brain for the purposes of sexual arousal. The term autoerotic asphyxiation is used when the act is done by a person to themselves. Colloquially, a person engaging in the activity is sometimes called a gasper. The erotic interest in asphyxiation is classified as a paraphilia in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of the American Psychiatric Association. Erotic asphyxiation can lead to accidental death due to asphyxia.
So this message is here as much for me as it is for you. If someone had only told me. Back when I was sixteen, and my teenage boyfriend wrapped his t-shirt around my neck. Is this a thing people do?