History Main / EroticAsphyxiation

* This accidentally happens to Colonel Sebastian Moran in the first story of ''Literature/TheHoundOfTheDurbervilles'', he gets tied up and noosed, and unwantedly develops an erection, in front of the man he was trying to kill, his woman, and their adopted daughter. Its played for laughs, and Moran mentions he knew a guy who liked to do it on purpose.

** In the ''Buu Bits'' shorts, Nappa's second death came from him indulging in auto-erotic asphyxiation and it going wrong.

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* In the ''Buu Bits'' segments of ''WebVideo/DragonBallZAbridged'', given the sheer amount of AmbiguousSyntax involved, it's heavily implied that Nappa died jerking himself off in his trailer while choking himself.
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'''Krillin:''' Jesus, ''WHAT?!''\\

* In the ''Buu Bits'' shorts of ''WebVideo/DragonBallZAbridged'', Nappa's second death came from him indulging in auto-erotic asphyxiation and it going wrong.

* ''WesternAnimation/RobotChicken'': One sketch posits that this is how [[Franchise/BackToTheFuture Doc Brown]] "hit his head in the bathroom" and came up with the idea for time travel. The rope came loose and he crashed into the sink.

* Happens with you and Mizuki in ''VisualNovel/YumeMiruKusuri''.

* ''WesternAnimation/RobotChicken'': One sketch posits that this is how [[Film/BackToTheFuture Doc Brown]] "hit his head in the bathroom" and came up with the idea for time travel. The rope came loose and he crashed into the sink.

* ''Fanfic/BackForGood'': The plot is kicked off with Professor Professor preparing to attend a funeral for an old professor who accidentally killed herself this way.

* ''Series/QueerAsFolk'' (the US version) has Brian trying this in the first season finale, but he's pulled down by Michael before anything horrible can happen.

* ''Series/IrmaVep'': Gottfriend nearly kills himself accidentally doing this. He's found hanged in the closet and saved though at first no one's sure if he'll survive.

'''Butters:''' [[ComicallyMissingThePoint Oh, no! I don't wanna have to buy a Batman costume!]]
-->-- ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark''

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* In the ''LightNovel/FullMetalPanic'' novels, Gauron once had a thing with a female scientist and strangled her. They both seemed to get off on it, as Gauron even lampshades it by mocking her, asking her if she actually likes making him angry, and actually wants him to hurt her. He says this with a perfect mixture of "coldness and joy," and she responds by gasping with "pain and ecstasy."
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* In ''Comicbook/{{Starman}}'', the ghost of the Black Pirate describes the sensation of being hanged and says you start to feel sleepy, but everything's awake below the waist. Jack admits that he's actually experienced this with an ex-girlfriend. The ghost then asks if Jack's experienced what happens ''next'', when ''everything'' goes to sleep, and Jack obviously hasn't.
* In ''Comicbook/StrangersInParadise'', [[BrokenBird Katchoo]] is often seen doing this to [[DepravedBisexual Darcy]] in various flashbacks.

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* A Pokemon fanfic (one of a series that begins with ''[[Fanfic/SwordAndShield Sword and Shield]]'' and features Mewtwo as the partner to a human homicide detective named Brenda Johnson) has Mewtwo and Brenda investigate one of these gone wrong. Mewtwo is disturbed, while the rather jaded Brenda finds it darkly amusing.

* ''Series/TheUmbrellaAcademy'': After kidnapping Klaus, Cha-Cha and Hazel attempt to strangle him for information, not realizing that he's a masochist. [[TooKinkyToTorture Obviously, their attempt doesn't work]], and Cha-Cha is disgusted when she realizes [[OrAreYouJustHappyToSeeMe Klaus's reaction]].

* On ''Series/TheXFiles'', Clyde Bruckman (who can see how anyone will die) implies that Mulder will die this way.
-->'''Bruckman:''' You know, there are worse ways to go, but I can't think of a more undignified way than autoerotic asphyxiation.
-->'''Mulder:''' Why are you telling ''me'' that?
-->'''Bruckman:''' ''[shrugs]'' Look, forget I mentioned it. It's none of my business.

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* In ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'', Kenny killed himself this way in "Sexual Healing," after learning about this from the page quote.

** If the player chooses to start masturbating over the PageThreeStunna with the personified Horrific Necktie equipped[[note]]a difficult check to see, as it requires the player to have had a high enough Inland Empire stat at the start of the game to give the Necktie its personality, but to have then dropped it to 0 (without the Necktie equipped) -- e.g., by being in the process of internalising the Boring Cop thought when doing the check[[/note]], it will 'tighten up a bit for you', ask you if that's good and call you a "sick, wild fuck-boy". Electrochemistry will respond by freaking out and force you to stop.

** Harry's/the Necktie's obsession with autoerotic asphyxiation probably stems back to his fandom for the Revacholian disco star Guillaume le Million (RhymesOnADime. [[YouSayTomato Somehow??]]), who -- if you complete the thought -- you find out died in an autoerotic asphyxiation listening to a disco record on loop, in a setup similar to Harry's trashed bedroom at the beginning of the game. His Encyclopedia warns him that Guillaume's death is a 'metaphor for Revachol'. If you try and discuss him with Joyce, she's convinced Guillaume died of venereal disease, possibly implying Harry's ideas about the death are just another part of his own dangerous fetish.

For clarification, ''auto''-erotic asphyxiation is [[ADateWithRosiePalms doing it yourself]], typically via some form of [[HangingAround hanging]], as opposed to getting someone else to do it to you. It should go without saying that this is a terrible, terrible, ''[[AccidentalSuicide terrible]]'' idea -- to the extent that [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erotic_asphyxiation#Famous_cases many of the more famous deaths from it]] have happened that way. On the other hand, if you do get someone else to do it and [[AccidentalMurder things go wrong]], it is liable to get them convicted of murder or manslaughter even if they manage to convince the court that it was consensual. Also, being drunk or under the influence of drugs that affect alertness (whether by making you feel more alert than you are or by lessening awareness and consciousness/depressing the central nervous system) increases the odds of dying, ''especially'' if combined with doing it solo.

* ''Film/Compulsion2016'': Sadie enjoys erotic asphyxiation, her lovers choking her during sex. Later on she does it to Francesca as well while they have sex, nearly stranguling her once. [[spoiler:In her next book, she writes the protagonist as having earlier killed her lover accidentally doing this.]]

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* A Pokemon fanfic (one of a series that begins with ''[[Fanfic/SwordAndShield Sword and Shield]]'' and features Mewtwo as the partner to a human homicide detective named Brenda Johnson) has Mewtwo and Brenda investigate one of these gone wrong. Mewtwo is disturbed, while the rather jaded Brenda finds it darkly amusing.
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