Autoerotic Asphyxia

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Sexual Hanging To Autoerotic Asphyxia 

1850s–1880s: Forensic physicians in Germany and France began publishing case reports of men found dead in compromising situations involving ligatures or hanging apparatus.

Psychiatrists such as Krafft-Ebing (author of Psychopathia Sexualis, 1886) classified it as a type of paraphilia or sexual deviation.

1900s–1930s: Forensic pathologists reported more systematic descriptions of deaths caused by “sexual hanging.”

These were almost always in young to middle-aged men, often discovered with pornographic material or evidence of masturbation.

1950s–1970s:

• The term “autoerotic asphyxia” became established in forensic medicine.

• Many case studies were published in journals, especially in Europe and North America.

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