Asphyxiophilia is a behavior that consists of an unusual method of increasing arousal and orgasms, through gradual and controlled strangulation to decrease oxygen. This practice can induce death. Hypoxyphilia, auto-erotic suffocation and asphyxia is one of the expressions used to specify this practice. According to statistics, they usually take into consideration only what is believed to be accidental death by auto-erotic drowning. This suffocation can be caused either by covering the head with a plastic or latex element.
Asphyxiophilia is stigmatic, since the individual must feel asphyxiated in order to achieve an orgasm, this is socially penalized behavior. This practice causes the temporary loss of consciousness, which is why it causes sexual pleasure to them, that is why they put the person at risk.
Sexologists say that asphyxiophilia is one of the few risky paraphilias, it causes exaltation by reducing the oxygen supply in the body, through procedures close to strangulation, which could be lethal because at the minute of orgasm the individual may lose control a little to take care of your life. If oxygen does not reach the brain adequately and the individual passes out, they can die if they do not react in time.
This practice is years old, this sexual method was patented among the Asian peoples and the Eskimos. Erotic self-asphyxia has been recorded since the 1600s. At the beginning it was implemented as a treatment for erectile dysfunction, the idea began after observing that the prisoners who were executed by hanging had an erection while they were hanged, the erection could be maintained during or even sometimes after they died, it was called death in erection, and in fact, occasionally it was possible to observe how the executed ejaculate during or after the hanging process. Asphyxiophilia was embedded in Europeby the military of the "French Foreign Troop" when they returned from the Indochina war. These practices were implemented in brothels in the Far East to enhance the sensation of orgasm.
