What is autoerotic asphyxiation and how can one die from it?

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What is autoerotic asphyxiation and how can one die from it?

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Answer 1

Autoerotic asphyxiation is when someone suffocates themselves in order to pleasure themselves. It isn’t intentional suicide, but a search for a sort of high that comes from near suffocation that synchronizes well with masturbation. Of course, while this could feel good, choke yourself too long and you’re dead.