Propane-Associated Autoerotic Asphyxiation: Accident or Suicide?

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Collegium antropologicum, Vol. 31 No. 2, 2007.

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Propane-Associated Autoerotic Asphyxiation: Accident or Suicide?

Valter Stemberga
Marina Bralić
Alan Bosnar
Miran Čoklo

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page 625-627

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APA 6th Edition

Stemberga, V., Bralić, M., Bosnar, A. & Čoklo, M. (2007). Propane-Associated Autoerotic Asphyxiation: Accident or Suicide?. Collegium antropologicum, 31 (2), 625-627. Retrieved from https://hrcak.srce.hr/27402

MLA 8th Edition

Stemberga, Valter, et al. "Propane-Associated Autoerotic Asphyxiation: Accident or Suicide?." Collegium antropologicum, vol. 31, no. 2, 2007, pp. 625-627. https://hrcak.srce.hr/27402. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.

Chicago 17th Edition

Stemberga, Valter, Marina Bralić, Alan Bosnar and Miran Čoklo. "Propane-Associated Autoerotic Asphyxiation: Accident or Suicide?." Collegium antropologicum 31, no. 2 (2007): 625-627. https://hrcak.srce.hr/27402

Harvard

Stemberga, V., et al. (2007). 'Propane-Associated Autoerotic Asphyxiation: Accident or Suicide?', Collegium antropologicum, 31(2), pp. 625-627. Available at: https://hrcak.srce.hr/27402 (Accessed 22 December 2024)

Vancouver

Stemberga V, Bralić M, Bosnar A, Čoklo M. Propane-Associated Autoerotic Asphyxiation: Accident or Suicide?. Collegium antropologicum [Internet]. 2007 [cited 2024 December 22];31(2):625-627. Available from: https://hrcak.srce.hr/27402

IEEE

V. Stemberga, M. Bralić, A. Bosnar and M. Čoklo, "Propane-Associated Autoerotic Asphyxiation: Accident or Suicide?", Collegium antropologicum, vol.31, no. 2, pp. 625-627, 2007. [Online]. Available: https://hrcak.srce.hr/27402. [Accessed: 22 December 2024]

Abstract

Autoerotic fatalities refer to a death resulting from the participation in a sex-related activity designed to heighten sexual
arousal. The overwhelming majority of these deaths are due to asphyxia, most often by hanging or ligature compression
of the neck. Here we report a case of »atypical« autoerotic fatality in which death was not induced by ligature compression.
Unusual death of a 24-year-old man, involving propane inhalation and plastic bag suffocation, is described.
The special characteristics of propane gas as an asphyxiant agent are discussed, as well as its effect on the human body.

Keywords

autoerotic death; asphyxia; propane inhalation

Hrčak ID:

27402

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/27402

Publication date:

10.4.2007.

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