An account of one man's triumph over the unusual compulsion of asphyxiophilia, a disorder in which sexual arousal and orgasm are dependent upon self-strangulation and asphyxiation. (Asphyxiophiliac rituals are often the unmentioned--or unrecognized--causes of the accidental suicide of young men.) Written by a sexologist, a creative- writing student, and a therapist, incorporating poems and narratives written by the victim himself.
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