asphyxiophiliac
English
Etymology
From asphyxiophilia + -ac
Noun
asphyxiophiliac (plural asphyxiophiliacs)
- 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.