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Aqua‐Eroticum: An Unusual Autoerotic Fatality in a Lake Involving a Home‐Made Diving Apparatus
Author(s) -
Sauvageau Anny,
Racette Stéphanie
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
journal of forensic sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.715
H-Index - 96
eISSN - 1556-4029
pISSN - 0022-1198
DOI - 10.1111/j.1556-4029.2005.00031.x
Subject(s) - asphyxia , submersion (mathematics) , accidental , medicine , poison control , medical emergency , anesthesia , mathematical analysis , physics , mathematics , acoustics , differentiable function
The term Aqua‐eroticum was first introduced in 1984 by Sivaloganathan to describe the unusual autoerotic death of a man using submersion as an asphyxia method. This was the first case of that kind, and since then, no other case of autoerotic submersion has been reported, nor other autoerotic fatality in open water. Here we report the case of a 25‐year‐old man, nude under a home‐made plastic body suit, overdressed for the season with winter clothes and restrained by complex bondage. He was submersed, tied underwater to a boat and was using a home‐made diving apparatus for air supply. Death was ruled as accidental autoerotic asphyxia from rebreathing, caused by the faulty air‐supply device.