Masahiko Ueno, a retired public medical examiner from the Tokyo Metropolitan Inspection Hospital and self-professed world expert on fukujoshi, literally ‘death atop the stomach,’ probed over 20,000 corpses during his career, became a best-selling author on tales the dead tell and has recently released a new book about how people have… er… died on the job. Shukan Post (11/21), Japan’s best selling weekly magazine, provides some extracts from Ueno’s ‘Otoko to Onna no Kanashii Shitai (Forlorn Corpses of Men and Women),’ in which he recounts some of the saucier endings he’s come across through the years…” — Mainichi Daily News (Japan)

Fukujoshi is basically the Japanese term for dying during sex. (Who knew there was a word for it?) The book written by Mr. Ueno contains some pretty fascinating statistics — more fukujoshi happen in the spring than in the fall; half involve married couples; men who die during sex tend to be in their forties and die of heart failure, while women tend to be in their thirties and die of brain hemorrhage; and so on. But more fun, of course, are the juicy stories of specific people who died doing the nasty. Like there is the peeping Tom who climbed a utility pole to spy on a woman — and then when he masturbated, his orgasm was so overwhelming that he let go of the pole and fell to his death! (The newspaper blithely calls this “do-it-yourself fukujoshi.”)

The other good story is best told in Mr. Ueno’s own words. “I had a case,” he told the paper, “where a young university lecturer was seeing an older woman on the side. At 45, she was seven years older than her beau. Of the pair, the woman was the more proactive. After about 30 minutes of their session, the woman suddenly gasped and collapsed. Trying to get his timing right to please his partner, the man then climaxed. The woman began foaming at the mouth, shuddered and stopped breathing. The man was still on top of her, but in a half-dreamlike state, and it took him a while to cotton on what had happened. She’d had a brain hemorrhage during sex.”

Gosh! Once you realize that it’s hard to tell whether your lover is having an aneurysm or an orgasm, it might be enough to make you not want to pleasure her at all…

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