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asphyxiophiliac en · NOUN

Etymology

From asphyxiophilia + -ac.

Meanings

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

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