Complex autoerotic death with full body wrapping in a plastic body bag.
Autoerotic deaths are normally classified as accidental deaths occurring during individual, and usually solitary, sexual activity in which a device, apparatus, or prop used to enhance sexual stimulation of the deceased somehow causes unintended death. The most common methods of autoerotic practices are asphyxia by hanging, ligature, plastic bag, chemical substances, or a mixture of these. However, atypical methods such as overdressing/body wrapping have also been reported. In fact, overdressing/body wrapping is so rare that it is implicated in only 1.5% of published cases. Although plastic bags are often implicated in autoerotic deaths, there has been only one previous case that involved a plastic covering the victim's body from head to toe. We here report the case of a 34-year-old man who died due to asphyxia, secondary to body wrapping in the largest and most complex plastic bag ever involved in a published case of autoerotic death.
Schellenberg
Morgan
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Laboratoire de sciences judiciaires et de médecine légale, Edifice Wilfrid-Derome, 1701, Parthenais street, 12th floor, Montreal, QC, Canada H2K 3S7.
Racette
Stéphanie
S
Sauvageau
Anny
A
D000328:Adult; D001237:Asphyxia / Q000209:etiology*; D017809:Fatal Outcome; D005554:Forensic Medicine; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010262:Paraphilic Disorders