Date:  Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:22:36 EST
From:  Larry Horn <LHORN[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]YALEVM.CIS.YALE.EDU>
Subject: Re: autoerotic asphyxiation

Arnold Zwicky writes,

>i had a dear friend who was presumed to have died from this
>practice in 1963, and i'm pretty sure "autoerotic asphyxiation"
>was the term the police used.
>
>(it might have been suicide. but i remember the expression;
>it was the first time i'd heard of it, or the practice it labels.)

It's becoming clearer and clearer that even the identification of masturbation
as a safe-sex practice is strongly context-dependent.

Larry, on behalf of pragmaticists everywhere