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autoerotic asphyxia

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noun

asphyxia caused by intentionally strangling oneself while masturbating in order to intensify the orgasm through reduced oxygen flow to the brain.

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OTHER WORDS FROM autoerotic asphyxia

autoerotic asphyxiation, noun

Words nearby autoerotic asphyxia

autodyne, autoecholalia, autoecious, autoecism, autoerotic, autoerotic asphyxia, autoeroticism, autoerotism, autoerythrocyte sensitization syndrome, autoexposure, autofiction

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How to use autoerotic asphyxia in a sentence

Homicidal violence including blunt force injury, sharp force injury, asphyxia, and gunshot wounds cannot be excluded.
Autopsies on Hannah Anderson’s Family Bring Police No Closer to a Motive|Christine Pelisek|September 24, 2013|DAILY BEAST
A doctor in Benghazi said Stevens died of "severe asphyxia" from smoke inhalation that had caused bleeding in his lungs.
U.S. Envoy To Libya Killed|Ali Gharib|September 12, 2012|DAILY BEAST
Madame Rondet has, in the present century, invented a tube to be used in cases of restoration from asphyxia.
The College, the Market, and the Court|Caroline H. Dall
It is feared that a sudden rush of science to the female brain would produce asphyxia in the female heart.
A New Atmosphere|Gail Hamilton

During asphyxia by submersion the higher consciousness enters into a minute study of the life now running to its close.
Reincarnation|Th. Pascal
Of course he walked directly into the opening, and was dragged out in a condition of asphyxia.
Out of the Hurly-Burly|Charles Heber Clark
He reflected that Julia could intoxicate herself with death, and that he had no such autoerotic sense.
Narcissus|Evelyn Scott

Medical definitions for autoerotic asphyxia

autoerotic asphyxia

n.

A form of sexual masochism in which oxygen flow to the brain is reduced, as by controlled strangulation or suffocation, in order to enhance the pleasure of masturbation.

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