Volume 147, Supplement , Pages S65-S67, 17 January 2005
Unusual phenomenology of autoerotic fatalities
Abstract
Between 1983 and 2003 forty accidental autoerotic deaths (all males, 13–79 years old) have been investigated at the Institute of Legal Medicine in Hamburg. Three cases with a rather unusual scenery are described in detail: (1) a 28-year-old fireworker was found hanging under a bridge in a peculiar bound belt system. The autopsy and the reconstruction revealed signs of asphyxiation, feminine underwear, and several layers of plastic clothing. (2) A 16-year-old pupil dressed with feminine plastic and rubber utensils fixed and strangulated himself with an electric wire. (3) A 28-year-old handicapped man suffered from progressive muscular dystrophy and was nearly unable to move. His bizarre sexual fantasies were exaggerating: he induced a nurse to draw plastic bags over his body, close his mouth with plastic strips, and put him in a rubbish container where he died from suffocation.
Keywords: Accidental autoerotic deaths, Masochism, Fetishism, Asphyxophilia, Death scene investigation
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PII: S0379-0738(04)00609-7
doi:10.1016/j.forsciint.2004.09.095
© 2004 Published by Elsevier Inc.
Volume 147, Supplement , Pages S65-S67, 17 January 2005
