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asphyxiophiliac

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English

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Etymology

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From asphyxiophilia +‎ -ac.

Noun

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asphyxiophiliac (plural asphyxiophiliacs)

  1. A person who enjoys erotic asphyxiation.
    • 1995, John M. Grossberg, Eccentric and Bizarre Behaviors, Wiley, →ISBN, page 112:
      I am an asphyxiophiliac. I started to strangle myself when I was sixteen. I didn't hang myself, however, I choked!
    • 2011, Sarah Toulalan, Bodies, Sex and Desire from the Renaissance to the Present, Springer, →ISBN, page 217:
      The lust murderer, the necrophile, the autassassinophilac and the asphyxiophiliac are defined and diagnosed within sexology partly by their compulsion to perform their act.
    • 2016, Dennis J. Baker, Reinterpreting Criminal Complicity and Inchoate Participation Offences, Routledge, →ISBN, page 270:
      McCarry was an asphyxiophiliac who had a history of engaging in autoerotic asphyxiation and Waters had full knowledge of this fact.