BS: WTF Kinda Sex is This???

Subject: RE: BS: WTF Kinda Sex is This???
From: Marion
Date: 11 Jun 09 - 09:22 AM

Thanks, Crow Sister. I also think this was well said:

"Love and joy, mean very different things to us all I guess. I might not think it a great idea, but if two people who love each other and are committed to each other, choose an alternative way to fulfill each other (which doesn't harm others), I would certainly not call it 'sick' simply because I didn't relate to it."

But of course, Hank Williams Said It Best....

Subject: RE: BS: WTF Kinda Sex is This???
From: Crow Sister (off with the fairies)
Date: 11 Jun 09 - 03:38 AM

"I consider a death from autoerotic asphyxiation to be the same kind of thing as a death from attempting to climb Mount Everest. Both are examples of people accepting extraordinary risks in pursuit of extraordinary thrills. It's unfortunate that when people play risky games - sexual or otherwise - they sometimes lose, but at least they died doing what they loved. It's nowhere near the tragedy of a person committing suicide."

Well said, Marion.

Subject: RE: BS: WTF Kinda Sex is This???
From: Marion
Date: 11 Jun 09 - 12:15 AM

"It's an accidental death but seems to be ruled suicide to spare the family's feelings."

Like CapriUni, I find this to be a sad statement - what does it say about our society if we consider having an unusual sexual fetish to be worse than suicidal depression?

"I can't imagine the horror of coming home and finding your son hanging in a closet nude and surrounded by porn. Geez!"

That would be horrible - but wouldn't it be even worse to find him hanging in a closet next to a note saying that his life was unbearable?

I consider a death from autoerotic asphyxiation to be the same kind of thing as a death from attempting to climb Mount Everest. Both are examples of people accepting extraordinary risks in pursuit of extraordinary thrills. It's unfortunate that when people play risky games - sexual or otherwise - they sometimes lose, but at least they died doing what they loved. It's nowhere near the tragedy of a person committing suicide.

Subject: RE: BS: WTF Kinda Sex is This???
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 10 Jun 09 - 04:12 PM

Er, no, but then I don't want a fire and a hearthrug too.

Subject: RE: BS: WTF Kinda Sex is This???
From: Lizzie Cornish 1
Date: 10 Jun 09 - 04:05 PM

"If you can concentrate on the Angora something is wrong..."

Well, yes...but...you can do a helluva lot of things with ringlets, Richard. ;0)

"Possibly the Barbara Cartand novel being read with the other hand is the problem."

You read Barbara Cartland whilst.....?"

Yikes! Richard! ;0)


Very good, Rappy, that made me smile..

Subject: RE: BS: WTF Kinda Sex is This???
From: Rapparee
Date: 10 Jun 09 - 09:35 AM

Tiger or polar bear.

You can hang onto the teeth.

Subject: RE: BS: WTF Kinda Sex is This???
From: Leadfingers
Date: 10 Jun 09 - 08:28 AM

100

Subject: RE: BS: WTF Kinda Sex is This???
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 10 Jun 09 - 08:24 AM

If you can concentrate on the Angora something is wrong. Possibly the Barbara Cartand novel being read with the other hand is the problem.

Subject: RE: BS: WTF Kinda Sex is This???
From: Lizzie Cornish 1
Date: 10 Jun 09 - 03:16 AM

Ooh Noooo....Sheepskin is so passe, Bruce.

Angora Goat....'cos you can play with the ringlets at the same time.. ;0)

Mind you, if you drop one of the chocolates in there it's hell to find.....but...

Subject: RE: BS: WTF Kinda Sex is This???
From: Peace
Date: 10 Jun 09 - 12:29 AM

I have to know: IS the rug sheepskin?

Subject: RE: BS: WTF Kinda Sex is This???
From: frogprince
Date: 10 Jun 09 - 12:03 AM

Oh. Lord; I just got a flashback from a past life:
San Diego, 1967; I got assigned late night shore patrol downtown. I never experienced as much weird in a year as during that one night. I just remembered the gal, perhaps a rather badly worn fortyish, we met just as we crossed a street. The only specific part of her slutty outfit that I remember for sure was the leopard skin micro skirt. The total scrap of nasally squaked conversation with her companion that I caught:

       "I feel that rubbing a little on the inside of my thighs makes me sexier".

Forgive me, Lizzy; I am not, not, not either thinking or implying that you are anything like that. I don't even know for certain that she was referring to perfume.

Subject: RE: BS: WTF Kinda Sex is This???
From: GUEST,Guest from Sanity
Date: 09 Jun 09 - 11:33 PM

Lizzie:"A smidgeon of Chanel No 5 behind the ears, the merest glow from the fire, beautiful music, and a soft rug,......."

Try Lauren(perfume)....works wonders!

Subject: RE: BS: WTF Kinda Sex is This???
From: Peace
Date: 09 Jun 09 - 08:31 PM

Damned good question, Bobert. IMO, it's a Yanagisawa 901 Tenor Sax.

Subject: RE: BS: WTF Kinda Sex is This???
From: GUEST,hg
Date: 09 Jun 09 - 08:29 PM

Bobert, did you start this thread? It's a corker....

Subject: RE: BS: WTF Kinda Sex is This???
From: frogprince
Date: 09 Jun 09 - 08:28 PM

"It was the thought of the Chocolate, sent me off into orgasmic visions!"

Doggone, Lizzy; that's entirely too kinky for me!

Subject: RE: BS: WTF Kinda Sex is This???
From: Bill D
Date: 09 Jun 09 - 07:27 PM

"...box of Milk Tray"

( chocolate-covered cherries..☺)

Subject: RE: BS: WTF Kinda Sex is This???
From: Lizzie Cornish 1
Date: 09 Jun 09 - 07:09 PM

Richard, you *never* ask a lady where she keeps her daffodil! Honestly, I'm surprised at you! LOL

"No, sorry Lizzie, you seem to have no comprehension of sexual excitement as distinct from romanticism."

Well, I have to admit that I wouldn't find it very romantic, or exciting come to that, to find my beloved hanging in the closet, turning blue, with a goofy grin on his face, whilst he played with his particulars, which he'd strung upwards pointing to the ceiling..

That is soooooooooooooo *not* a good look, Boys.....

Nope, I'm afraid you'll have to continue with the chocolates, but don't give them to Bill, 'cos he's gone to a distant place at the moment and presenting him with an entire box of Milk Tray right now, may prove more than a little dangerous! LOL

Subject: RE: BS: WTF Kinda Sex is This???
From: Bill D
Date: 09 Jun 09 - 06:53 PM

"thought of the Chocolate, sent me off into orgasmic visions! "

I remember chocolate having effects like that...*grin* Properly applied..

Subject: RE: BS: WTF Kinda Sex is This???
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 09 Jun 09 - 06:19 PM

Oh, welcome back Marianne Faithfull. Where did you put the daffodil?

No, sorry Lizzie, you seem to have no comprehension of sexual excitement as distinct from romanticism. They are different, and both can be enjoyable (as far as I remember).

Personally, being strangled does not float my boat - but in most cases that is not the point of that game either. If it did, it would, and that's that. Whatever gets your rocks off, gets your rocks off. But the asphyxiation thing, the lack of oxygen slows down your brain (I am told) so the orgasm seems to last longer and be stronger.

Subject: RE: BS: WTF Kinda Sex is This???
From: Lizzie Cornish 1
Date: 09 Jun 09 - 05:00 PM

"Daffodadowndillies and Chocclates!"

Hey, I think I just invented a new KinkySlinkyBinky game! LOL

Er..let's try that again...

'Daffadowndillies and Chocolates'

I am soooo spluttering with giggles now. It was the thought of the Chocolate, sent me off into orgasmic visions! ;0)

Subject: RE: BS: WTF Kinda Sex is This???
From: akenaton
Date: 09 Jun 09 - 03:12 PM

Well said Lizzie, we haven't all gone mad it seems!

Subject: RE: BS: WTF Kinda Sex is This???
From: frogprince
Date: 09 Jun 09 - 03:01 PM

"I'm old-fashioned. Or maybe I'm just 'natural', who knows, either way, I couldn't EVER equate physically hurting someone in any way with loving them, let alone taking them to the brink of death.
I find that beyond comprehension, and pretty darn sick."

Guess what, Liz? I agree with that much completely. And apart from physical pain, I don't think it's loving for one partner to pressure another into something they're not comfortable with.

But there is so much that's so subjective. Anything but "missionary" is too "kinky" for some. Licking a trickle of chocolate syrup off a breast is too "kinky" for some. Jewelry pierced into genitals is too kinky for some, and I'm definitely one of that some. Sleeping nude is too kinky for some. I think putting on a pony halter and prancing around is about the dumbest thing I've ever heard of, but, if both people get a kick out of it, it isn't hurting a living soul.

Then again, if my wife decided she wanted to try "pony play", I'd probably go along with it for her sake...(Don't worry; it's not going to happen).
                      Semi-Old-Fashioned Dean

Subject: RE: BS: WTF Kinda Sex is This???
From: Lizzie Cornish 1
Date: 09 Jun 09 - 02:06 PM

Nope, I'm old-fashioned and proud of it. No-one's going to get to tie me to a bed, hang me upside down, put a chord around my neck (sorry English folk world)...paint me 100% in gold paint, make love to me upside down on a rollercoaster with no seat belt...lash me to a tree, make me wear funny outfits, carry a whip or a whole lotta other things!

Yeesh!!!

I've enough of 'The Strange Ones' coming over to my Myspace page, with their Dolly Bird Collections of Miss Whipmemore and Auntie Leatherboots....

Oh for the days of Daffodadowndillies and Chocclates!

A smidgeon of Chanel No 5 behind the ears, the merest glow from the fire, beautiful music, and a soft rug, is all that's needed to make me happy...along with a Soul that connects with mine 110%.

I'll leave The Weird Ones to themselves, whilst refusing to be made to feel that I have to accept every goddamn shite piece of behaviour in this world which goes against all that I believe in, because if I don't it means I'm 'ist' in some way.

Well fooook that for a game of 'What the Hell are we Playing?'

Any man who wanted to do anything like that to me, or with me, would be out on his ear, without his clothes, quicker than he could say "But....all I wanted was to......!"

Holey Moley!

People can do whatever they want, so long as they do it behind closed doors, and the rest of us don't have to endure hearing about it, or having young minds being twisted because of it.

The Kinky Business has got wayyyyyyyy out of control, if you ask me.

Lizzie The Party Pooper.. :0)

Subject: RE: BS: WTF Kinda Sex is This???
From: Rapparee
Date: 09 Jun 09 - 12:33 PM

Someone's death or crippling affects more that the one directly involved. Loved ones are left behind, for instance, to cope with the tragedy. I used to think that there were "victimless crimes" but not any more -- someone is ALWAYS affected.

Subject: RE: BS: WTF Kinda Sex is This???
From: GUEST,Guest from Sanity
Date: 09 Jun 09 - 12:26 PM

It's like playing Russian roulette, putting a gun to your head, or a rope around your neck, while thinking with your dick! A lot of things are like that....just look at the homosexual movement!

Subject: RE: BS: WTF Kinda Sex is This???
From: frogprince
Date: 09 Jun 09 - 10:38 AM

Maybe I come down somewhere between Liz and Crow Sister. I haven't been tied down to the four corners of the bed, or done that to anyone else; just haven't had any such inclination. If a couple get a kick out of that, or of using a silk whip that stings a little, I might "blink" in reaction; but I wouldn't really be "put off" at all, let alone appalled. On the other hand, doing something that you know costs a few brain cells every time, or, say, ending up in the emergency room to have a bottle or something extricated, suggests to me that you have a neurotic compulsion to...shall we say... try way too hard to get your jollies.

Subject: RE: BS: WTF Kinda Sex is This???
From: Crow Sister (off with the fairies)
Date: 09 Jun 09 - 10:13 AM

"Or maybe I'm just 'natural', who knows, either way, I couldn't EVER equate physically hurting someone in any way with loving them, let alone taking them to the brink of death.
I find that beyond comprehension, and pretty darn sick."

Lizzie, I don't think you have to be 'damaged' to enjoy high levels of stimulation. It's why we have rollercoaster rides and horror films. Hell, people are 'naturally' into all kinds of things.

I like chilli chocolate and fast motorbikes, I also like very strong blue cheese. While I've not tried erotic strangulation (yet...) I don't find it a challenging idea that other normal people, do. For my own part, I suspect the risks would outweigh the benefits, but then I could say the same for me regarding mountain climbing, deep sea diving, or indeed any human activity that others are called to partake in which is high risk.

Love and joy, mean very different things to us all I guess. I might not think it a great idea, but if two people who love each other and are committed to each other, choose an alternative way to fulfill each other (which doesn't harm others), I would certainly not call it 'sick' simply because I didn't relate to it.

Subject: RE: BS: WTF Kinda Sex is This???
From: Lizzie Cornish 1
Date: 09 Jun 09 - 02:56 AM

"In regards to strangulation, I recall watching a doco some time back about a married American couple into bondage - he was an expert with ropes and would string her up from trees in the backgarden. The husband described himself as 'a loving sadist', and controlled strangulation was her thing so that's what he did for her."

That's it. I'm coming back an amoeba next time. :0)

Geez! WHAT happened to those two, as children, that they ended up like that?

Maybe if they'd been given love back then, they'd not have the need for all that later..

I know, I'm old-fashioned. Or maybe I'm just 'natural', who knows, either way, I couldn't EVER equate physically hurting someone in any way with loving them, let alone taking them to the brink of death.
I find that beyond comprehension, and pretty darn sick. I know that these days we're supposed to accept everything as 'normal' but hell's bells, there are some things that are...are.............are......

I can't even find the words...

Subject: RE: BS: WTF Kinda Sex is This???
From: JohnInKansas
Date: 09 Jun 09 - 02:40 AM

Please note that I have been severely chastized by my favorite editor for my misattribution in my (rather flippant) post at 07 Jun 09 - 08:53 PM.

It was pointed out that the quote about masturbation was NOT from "Jumpin' Jack Flash" but was instead from "Annie Hall."

I was forced to dig out the original floppy disks dating back to about 1998 and load them into her sewing machine (the only floppy disk reader we still have) in order to dump them to a thumb drive for transfer to current archives (on hard drives) so that I could refresh my memory and verify the veracity of her recollection.

Sorry about that, but to me Woody and Whoopie actually do sound a bit alike - at least when they're emoting arousal.

In order to ameliorate the situation, I was forced to play all 100 of the clips. They were originally a subversive creation circulated only among the community of microserfs. Our original copy came in a plain brown wrapper from "the community," sender unknown; but I believe most of the set was eventually released by the unofficial Windows Utilities group sometime early in the Win98 era.

I'd describe some of the other clips in the set; but I'm afraid I might make another misidentification and be limited to "the big M" for an even longer period before she is sufficiently placated to permit resumption of our customary _abnormal activities.

John

Subject: RE: BS: WTF Kinda Sex is This???
From: Crow Sister (off with the fairies)
Date: 09 Jun 09 - 02:27 AM

There's also a presupposition with some posts that kinky sex involving whatever it is that's your thing, but specifically in this instance strangulation, is distinct and separate from love and tenderness. Of course it isn't. People who are in love with each other want to give each other as much pleasure as possible - I think I'd call that 'making love' irrespective of whether it involved knives, ropes, or dominance & submission etc. It's just a different kind of 'romance' from the commonly recognised kind. And is arguably *more* intimate, due to the higher levels of trust and openness it necessitates.

Assuming that kinky sex is distinct from romance, is akin to making the same assumptions about sex between homosexual partners being necessarily devoid of love.

In regards to strangulation, I recall watching a doco some time back about a married American couple into bondage - he was an expert with ropes and would string her up from trees in the backgarden. The husband described himself as 'a loving sadist', and controlled strangulation was her thing so that's what he did for her.

Subject: RE: BS: WTF Kinda Sex is This???
From: Don Firth
Date: 09 Jun 09 - 12:30 AM

Masochist:   Whip me! Stab me! Beat me!
Sadist (with a sneer):   No!
Masochist (with an ecstatic shudder):   Ohh. . . .   Thank you!

Don Firth

Subject: RE: BS: WTF Kinda Sex is This???
From: frogprince
Date: 08 Jun 09 - 09:15 PM

By the way, in answer to Bobert's original query, "WTF Kinda Sex is This???":












Nothing to get choked up about.

Subject: RE: BS: WTF Kinda Sex is This???
From: Naemanson
Date: 08 Jun 09 - 08:26 PM

Several Years ago Sean Connery was in a movie where he helped investigate the death of a girl who died during asphyxiation sex.

Subject: RE: BS: WTF Kinda Sex is This???
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 08 Jun 09 - 06:55 PM

Romanticism is fine, but an obsession with it demonstrates a failure to understand lust.

Subject: RE: BS: WTF Kinda Sex is This???
From: fretless
Date: 08 Jun 09 - 05:14 PM

Sorry about that. I tend to take questions about classical philology seriously.

On the other hand, years ago, in a session in which scholarly papers about ancient eroticism and sexually explicit art were being discussed, some old codger got up during the question and answer period and congratulated a young woman who had just read a paper on classical Greek depictions of oral sex. "You are to be congratulated," he said, "for presenting your subject matter so tastefully."

And then he realized what he said.

And the best part is that after turning beet red, he still had the presence of mind to follow up and say "Well, I guess this proves once again that the tongue is mightier than the sword."

Really happened.

Subject: RE: BS: WTF Kinda Sex is This???
From: meself
Date: 08 Jun 09 - 05:01 PM

Um ... it was a joke. A take-off on George Bush's infamous, "The French don't even have a word for entrepreneur".

(Did he actually say that? I don't know.)

Subject: RE: BS: WTF Kinda Sex is This???
From: fretless
Date: 08 Jun 09 - 04:49 PM

"The Greeks didn't even have a word for 'pornography'!"

Perhaps. Pornos in ancient Greek means catamite, sodomite, or fornicator; porneia would be fornication or prostitution. I don't have the dictionaries on hand (no pun intended) to see how the classical Greeks would describe sexually explicit art. Their vocabulary was more limited than ours, but even if the construction "pornography," which combines the Greek word pornos with the Greek word graphia [i.e. the drawing or writing of], is modern, you can bet those sly ol' Greeks, who were painting pictures of the stuff, would have had a way of expressing what it was they were painting, looking at, and presumably thinking about and doing.

Subject: RE: BS: WTF Kinda Sex is This???
From: Lizzie Cornish 1
Date: 08 Jun 09 - 04:26 PM

Holy Moley, I have THE most weird visions happening in my head, all of which have me doubled up with laughter!

But, if everyone's holding their breath, got a plastic bag on their head, or plugged themselves into the mains...how can they do this?


Oh...Ohhh...Ahhhh....Ohhhh....Hooooh...Ooooh...yes, yEs, yES, YES!!! ;0)

Subject: RE: BS: WTF Kinda Sex is This???
From: CapriUni
Date: 08 Jun 09 - 03:54 PM

From SRS:

It's an accidental death but seems to be ruled suicide to spare the family's feelings.

I don't know about other families, but in my case, I think being told that a loved one had committed suicide would make me more upset, because to get to that point, it would mean there had been years of misery and sadness before that.

I'd never do "breath control" sex, myself, because it is so dangerous. But I still understand that depriving the brain of oxygen does create a sensation of euphoria (which is why people try to get high sniffing glue, paint fumes, and the like). Idiotic, and dangerous, but still striving for pleasure instead of giving up on the hope for it.

(Then again, I think of myself as a sexual liberal)

Subject: RE: BS: WTF Kinda Sex is This???
From: meself
Date: 08 Jun 09 - 03:27 PM

The Greeks didn't even have a word for 'pornography'!

Subject: RE: BS: WTF Kinda Sex is This???
From: bobad
Date: 08 Jun 09 - 03:20 PM

As the French say: "Chacun à son goût."

Subject: RE: BS: WTF Kinda Sex is This???
From: Lizzie Cornish 1
Date: 08 Jun 09 - 02:09 PM

I'm just not going out anymore. It's not safe! Beam me up, Scottie! :0)

Give me just the light from a warm fire...and leave the rest to nature's 'natural' ways.

You can't beat Love & Romance.

It doesn't matter if you plug yourself into the mains, or hang upside down with the bats...nothing matches being loved and having a spiritual connection with the person you're with.

Subject: Abrazos: WTF Kinda Sex is This???
From: wysiwyg
Date: 08 Jun 09 - 12:06 PM

Continuing from my earlier post: "Folks, the first thing you have to realize is that human biological urges are not exactly governed 100% by the intelligent forebrain", my amazing, integrating brain tells me that the 4 or 5 really disparate dysfunctions I've been learning about of late connect in one important place: the extent to which an individual's forebrain does or does not "manage*" the limbic brain.

WE NEED TO BE ABLE TO MEASURE THAT. (*Communicate with, manage, control, direct, monitor)


If we could-- we, as a species, would be able to predict behavior much more accurately. We, as individuals, would be in a much better position to live our best intentions. We, when we are people responsible to our societies for issues of safety, would have a fallback methodology to buttress our legal decisions.

We, as a society, however, would ALSO have another slippery slope of ethics to navigate-- with great thought and care.


"Nature vs. Nurture" is another poorly-understood area of humanity. Again, I have long integrated them: "Nature AND Nurture" is so much more likely, and so much simpler. I notice that the old dichotomy is increasingly replaced by this combined paradigm.

~Susan

Subject: RE: BS: WTF Kinda Sex is This???
From: katlaughing
Date: 08 Jun 09 - 12:03 PM

Nothing new under the sun when it comes to portraying eroticism: CLick Here..an excerpt:

Greek art often portrays sexual activity, but it is impossible to distinguish between what to them was illegal or immoral since the ancient Greeks did not have a concept of pornography. Their art simply reflects scenes from daily life, some more sexual than others. Carved phalli can be seen in places of worship such as the temple of Dionysus on Delos, while a common household item and protective charm was the herm, a statue consisting of a head on a square plinth with a prominent phallus on the front. The Greek male ideal had a small penis, an aesthetic the Romans later adopted.

Surely the practice of AEA goes back much farther than most realise. I saw one study which said it probably came about from observing what happened when a man was hanged and started out in the 1600s, but that's in the Western world. I would imagine it could be found in the history of Eastern cultures, too.

I don't remember when I first read about this. I know it didn't shock me as much as learning what a "snuff" film was. Truly sickening.

Subject: RE: BS: WTF Kinda Sex is This???
From: fretless
Date: 08 Jun 09 - 11:55 AM

Autoerotic asphyxiation was used as a plot device in an old X Files episode, and it also figured in the movie version of Rising Sun (I don't remember if it was in the book, as well). Newspaper accounts of Caradine's death have been very circumspect in their reporting. Suicide by hanging is all I'd seen before this strand appeared.

Regarding comments above about the history of pornography, there are lots of pornographic (i.e. sexually explicit) wall paintings from Pompeii, usually assumed to be decorations in brothels. Well- and extensivly illustrated in Jean-Claude Marcade's 1965 book, Roma Amor. Companion volume of classical Greek erotica by the same author is titled Eros Kalos. Sexually explicit images in religious context were part of these cultures, as well, but I think it is fair to characterize most of what Marcade illustrates as good ol' secular encouragement rather than cult.

Subject: RE: BS: WTF Kinda Sex is This???
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 08 Jun 09 - 11:34 AM

I am almost sure that dolphins have been reported indulging in recreational sex.

Recreational sex has been well-documented among many species. Bonobo chimps are the poster children for recreational sex in the animal world. And then there is the gay sex in the animal world.

I heard an author interviewed a couple of years ago about a book, but I don't remember what it was called. A quick search came up with an article by a different author that covers much of the same territory. The effeminate sheep and other problems with Darwinian sexual selection.

Ideas evolve; the world views that we hold today are different than in Victorian times or Revolutionary War times or during the Crusades, and these are different from world views in Asia and Africa for comparable periods. Ideas about religion, literature, politics, social issues are a social/cultural accretion. But to think that people in earlier eras didn't figure out many of the same things we know about sex today is naive. The big ideas are in the cerebrum, layered in through culture and formal education. The limbic system (mammalian brain) or the brain stem is where the sex comes from.

This discussion of sex has been channeled through the modern cerebrum, and apparently a lot of folks are relatively unaware of what the mammalian brain can get up to.

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: WTF Kinda Sex is This???
From: frogprince
Date: 08 Jun 09 - 11:00 AM

That makes at least two posts in two days - John's. and SRS on News of Note yesterday with the Mexican orphanage - that are just heartbreaking. But thanks, John, for the sake of those who need to be aware.
                            Dean

Subject: RE: BS: WTF Kinda Sex is This???
From: JohnInKansas
Date: 08 Jun 09 - 10:27 AM

Both mechanical asphyxiation and "sniffing" of various substances appear to produce very similar results. Many of the "inhalants" work primarily by displacing oxygen resulting in deprivation of the brain; but some of the popular ones additionally induce "poisons" into the blood circulation.

In a normal male erection a fairly significant amount of blood is diverted to other places, so asphyxiation by mechanical means or by displacement may produce symptoms similar to the "arousal phase" of sexual activity, and the sudden restoration of normal flow to the brain at the end is part of the "climax." A similar effect probably appears in females; but I haven't encountered a qualified spokeswoman with whom to discuss the subject, and suspect that it may typically be a smaller and less important effect in the process.

Unfortunately, the "effects" during the oxygen deprivation (arousal) stage also are similar to what may be observed or reported in some strokes, with the same, often permanent, result - death of some cells in the brain. Extended asphyxiation even when not resulting in accidental death can cause brain damage; and the damage can be cumulative when repeated. Either practice - strangulation or inhalants - can and does produce both dead children and "child zombies" still living but unable function even to the extent of responding to caregivers.

Having seen three such zombie children in the course of "support counselling" for a friend in treatment for drug abuse, I do not wish to see another. All three of these happened to be female, between 14 and 16 years of age, and - as one counsellor remarked - "would make lovely house plants" - but displayed no visible "human" functions. The effects were permanent, and there is NO TREATMENT that can restore function. All three of these were "sniffers," but mechanical asphyxiation reportedly can produce the same or very similar "undead" subjects.

In most of the reported instances of mechanical asphyxiation there is the appearance of an obvious link to "sexual activity," but the "high" experienced from depriving the brain of oxygen may be sufficient to tempt those too young to associate it with sex to repeat and extend the practice. It possibly is more common to see non-sexual "sniffers," but with both "methods" it's questionable whether it should be called "sex" when it happens in kids too young even to masturbate - as it does both with inhalants and with mechanical "chokings."

John

Subject: RE: BS: WTF Kinda Sex is This???
From: SINSULL
Date: 08 Jun 09 - 08:54 AM

Auto-erotic Asphyxiation has become the thrill of choice for young boys - some as young as nine. Parents are warned to watch for symptoms including bruises around the neck, drowsiness from lack of oxygen, ties and ropes around bedposts, etc. The news has gotten around that it is an easy "high". It sounds funny until you hear the statistics on accidental deaths among early teens as a result of trying it alone. 1000 people per year is the estimate but not known for sure because families clean up death scenes before the police arrive. Often the death is called a suicide when it is actually an accident.
I can't imagine the horror of coming home and finding your son hanging in a closet nude and surrounded by porn. Geez!

Subject: RE: BS: WTF Kinda Sex is This???
From: GUEST,Mr Red
Date: 08 Jun 09 - 06:21 AM

We had a case of it in Malvern in the 80's. The guy worked for a military establishment and the full story first broke in "Electronics Weekly" - mainly because he was of that persausion - (tick both of the above).