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Electrocuted to death: A case of an autoerotic fatality with body wrapping, anal masochism, and low abdomen mechanical stimulation

Authors

POHLOVA KUCEROVA Stepanka DALIBOR Kovarik VOJTÍŠEK Tomáš ZATOPKOVA Lenka JANIK Martin RIZWANA Riaz HEJNA Petr

Year of publication 2023
Type Article in Periodical
Magazine / Source Legal Medicine
MU Faculty or unit

Faculty of Medicine

Citation
Web https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1344622323000755?via%3Dihub
Doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.legalmed.2023.102265
Keywords Autoeroticism; Lethal paraphilia; Body wrapping; Anal masochism; Electrocution
Description Autoerotic paraphilic manipulations may be not only incredibly unusual but also hazardous and possibly fatal. Autoerotic experimenters sometimes combine several paraphilic mechanisms, both potentially lethal and non-lethal. A tragic outcome is usually a direct consequence of the life-threatening paraphilic mechanism(s); how-ever, it may also result from an accidental complication arising from the constellation of the paraphilic reali-zation. In this report, we present a case of an autoerotic death of a 30-year-old man who applied two potentially lethal paraphilic mechanisms-body wrapping and foreign body anal insertion-together with two other non-lethal paraphilic activities, autofetishism and transvestitism. However, the man's death ultimately occurred due to another associated autoerotic activity-stimulation of the lower abdomen with an electric massager, which accidentally short-circuited and caused fatal electrocution. Such autoerotic fatalities constitute a distinct subcategory of accidental autoerotic death.

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