“A British teacher has died in a sex game after watching a TV documentary about the ’sex acrobatics’ of former INXS singer Michael Hutchence. Jonathan Waldron, 25, was strangled after tying a cord around his neck and fixing it to a window handle in similar circumstances to Hutchence’s death. Hutchence was found dead in a Sydney hotel room in 1997 naked and hanging from a cord. Although an inquest ruled Hutchence had committed suicide, friends say he died accidentally in an act of autoerotic asphyxiation.” — The Age (Australia)

There are no statistics on how many people attempt to engage in autoerotic asphyxiation, but it seems you never hear about it unless someone ends up strangling himself to death. You can’t help but wonder what percentage of people step over that line from self-love to self-slaughter. A few years ago there was a story about a guy — please don’t try this at home — who tied a chain around one wheel of his Volkswagon and the other around his neck, then put the car in gear to tighten the chain while he masturbated. He died too.

It’s amazing, when you think about it, what risks people are willing to take for the sake of a little transient pleasure. They engage in activities that could devastate their families, wipe out their savings, cost them their jobs. They risk humiliation, disease, imprisonment — and in cases such as this, even death. And for what? A poke or a squirt? The reality of an orgasm, however pleasureful it may be, must fall far short of the ideal people have of it. In the heart of every pervert is a frustrated idealist, and therefore every sex crime is the sordid aftermath of an attempt to bridge the gap between dream and reality. Or to put it another way, it’s sex in dream and crime in reality.

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