Breaking News: David Carradine's Rep: Death Was 'Accidental'

I'm not sure that makes things all better.

"Posted at 2:56PM on Jun 4th 2009 by Digimon (commenter)

Yea, it definitely soudned like erotic-autasphyxiation. I dont' think the rep or his family should have to divulge something so personal. I know quite a handful of other famous people had this happen to them. Let this man's memory live on peacefully, without his sexual habits to divulged, what an embarrassing thing to have going around about somebody so famous."

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Last Edited by Antiphon Revelation on 06/04/2009 04:06 PM

From Wikipedia:

"Erotic asphyxiation refers to intentionally cutting off oxygen to the brain for sexual arousal. It is also called asphyxiophilia, autoerotic asphyxia, scarfing, kotzwarraism, or breath control play. Colloquially, a person engaging in the activity is sometimes called a gasper. The erotic interest in asphyxiation is classified as a paraphilia in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of the American Psychiatric Association."

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From Wikipedia:

"Paraphilia refers to powerful and persistent sexual interest other than in copulatory or precopulatory behavior with phenotypically normal, consenting adult human partners.

The term was coined by Wilhelm Stekel in the 1920s and popularized by John Money in the 1960s. Psychologists and psychiatrists codified paraphilias as disorders in the 1980 version of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-III). The current version of the DSM (DSM-IV-TR) describes paraphilias as conditions which "are characterized by recurrent, intense sexual urges, fantasies, or behaviors that involve unusual objects, activities, or situations and cause clinically significant distress or impairment in social, occupational, or other important areas of functioning," (p. 535). Sexual arousal in association with objects that were designed for sexual purposes is not DSM diagnosable (DSM, p. 570).[3] Some people diagnosed with paraphilias undergo voluntary or involuntary intervention to alter their behavior.

The view of paraphilias as disorders is not universal. Charles Allen Moser, a physician and advocate for sexual minorities, has argued that the diagnoses should be eliminated from diagnostic manuals. Groups seeking greater understanding and acceptance of sexual diversity have lobbied for changes to the legal and medical status of unusual sexual interests and practices. Psychiatrist Glen Gabbard writes that despite efforts by Stekel and Money, "the term paraphilia remains pejorative in most circumstances.""

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He was naked in a closet with a Rope around his neck?!

would/could someone in their 70's actually do this???

I'm 37 and I wouldn't even try this.

He's 72???

I think someone murdered him.

Vaughn Bode the famous hippie artist also died in this manner. Some say the method induces a great orgasm.

My cousin died from this.
They go to far getting into the sexual experience and before they realize its to late to physically stop it.
And they hang themselves.

I wouldn't regard AEA as 'paraphelia' as the ropes themselves are not objects of sexual desire, merely tools.

At that age people should be working on their spiritual side, not their physical/sexual desires.

Whores should be cheap for a guy like that. WTF?? Why not go for the real thing?

rope around his body also..get real . there is no proof he at 72 was attepting a sex act..glpers order up some brain cells please .

Not that I'm presuming he was doing both, but sexuality and spirituality are highly interconnected, which is why I find this comment highly presumptuous and almost certainly disrespectful.

This is your last news?

What do you mean? This is from 14 days ago.