Sheets of paper
over her head cause a shortness of breath that can be sexually stimulating. For
the police, foil bags are therefore an important indication that a death could
be an accident in self-gratification.
Eighty to 100 people are estimated to die each year
from risky masturbation practices in Germany. The Brandenburg physician
Harald Voss assumes one to two cases per million inhabitants. Most victims
are men.
The most common reason
for autoerotic deaths is the desire for oxygen deficiency, called
hypoxyphilia. In the process, people purposely lax their breath during
masturbation. The risk is often underestimated. "Being
unconscious is faster than people think. If, for example, both carotid
arteries are squeezed, it takes a maximum of 30 seconds, "warns the
forensic physician.
Bizarre and well-known cases
►A man from Hesse had
been found dead in his hobby cellar shortly before the turn of the year -
according to the Hanau prosecutor's investigation, he suffocated. The man
was shackled all over his body and neck, the authorities said. Assume an
autoerotic death - a deadly self-satisfaction.
►Bizarrer death from
Hamburg: A man should, according to "Frankfurter Rundschau" occupied
with Scheiblettenkäse, pulled a nylon tights over the upper body and have put
on a plastic raincoat, climbed into a diving suit and then set with a plastic
bag over his head in front of the switched on heating to have.
► "Kill Bill"
actor David Carradine was found strangled in a wardrobe in 2009. A forensic
doctor said then: "He died after he had satisfied himself."
►INXS singer Michael
Hutchence was discovered in 1997 strangled on a belt in a hotel room. His
partner contradicted the coroner at the time that it had been suicide and
explained the incident with a failed sex game. To date, the case is
unclear.
What is so attractive about cutting off the air?
"It is thought that
oxygen deficiency has a euphoric effect, especially with an orgasm," says
Voß. One assumes that it comes in the brain to a Dopaminschub, similar to
a drug rush. Even teenagers would try the practice already. The
phenomenon runs through all ages.
The range of autoerotic
practices is generally diverse: In addition to lack of oxygen and electric
shock and the vacuum cleaner plays a role. "Penis injuries during masturbation with vacuum
cleaners" was the title of a dissertation by urologist Michael Alschibaja
Theimura of 1978 . The doctor
described in it cases of men who had stuck their penis in a vacuum cleaner
nozzle and seriously injured. However, many did not admit that. One
claimed, for example, that he had injured himself while repairing a coffee
grinder on the penis, another stated that he had fallen on a garden chair.
Theimuras's conclusion was: "It is likely
that the number of unreviewed masturbation attempts with vacuum cleaners is
high, as they are not recorded unless they cause injury."
Voss also assumes a high
number of unreported deaths from autoerotic accidents. In more than
30 years he may have had five cases, said
the legal physician from Frankfurt (Oder).
References to
an accident in masturbation are for example: a bared genitals, porn pictures, a
mirror nearby, shackles that could have been attached by themselves, foil bags
pulled over the head - and if the person was alone in a closed room and not
Left farewell letter.
Evidence
often disappears from shame
Relatives who find the
body sometimes put things away, because the shame is so great, reports Voss. It's
not always about hypoxyphilia.
An old woman in
Halle, for example, once found her son with the clamps of Christmas tree lights
on her nipples and cleared the lights until the ambulance arrived. Burns
on the body would have made Voss but suspicious. The woman then admitted
how she found the man. He had tried to stimulate himself with electric
shock - too much for his weak heart, Voss says.
Most men are the
victims of autoerotic deaths, he says. "It's the same with women, but
it's less likely to kill because women are obviously more cautious and do not
put in so much sophistication."
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