Forget the Marquis de Sade or Psychopathia Sexualis. If you really want to read about bizarre sexual practices, PubMed is the place to do your deviant research. PubMed is basically Google for doctors and healthcare professionals. It contains citations and abstracts for all kinds of specialized articles on medicine. Enter your favorite kink into the search field on PubMed, and odds are you’ll find it represented in case histories, epidemiological surveys, meta-analyses, and so forth.

Of course, reading about your kink on PubMed can be dispiriting. The reason is obvious: if your kink concerns doctors, it is probably because your kink can lead to madness, mutilation, or death. For example, articles on autoerotic asphyxiation are numerous — not because so many people practice asphyxia but because a fair number fuck up and kill themselves.

While autoerotic asphyxiation has become well known in recent years, there are other forms of autoerotic fatalities that have yet to experience their fifteen minutes of notoriety. For example, you don’t often hear about autoerotic fatalities with power hydraulics. It’s such an aberrant activity that it’s amazing the medical literature records more than one instance of it.

Slightly less bizarre is the phenomenon of autoerotic electrocution. There have been a few stories on PervScan about electrical misadventures, such as the “reVOLTing” shrink. These don’t compare, however, to two stories to be found on PubMed. A 1997 article titled “Death from Electrocution During Autoerotic Practice: Case Report and Review of the Literature” describes a young man whose body was found by his parents.

A first-aid doctor who was called to the scene before police saw a cable connected to the body and stated that death hypostasis and rigor mortis had already occurred. The police surgeon who saw the body some hours afterward stated that he had not seen any cable. Furthermore, pornographic magazines and videotapes of sadomasochistic material, a bottle covered with feces, and a wire with a plug for domestic current (230 V) at one end and both strands separated at the other end were found in the room of the deceased. A self-made electrode was attached to one of the strands; the other strand was blank, but the remains of duct tape suggested that a second electrode, probably corresponding to the Y-shaped lesion on the chest (possibly a loop for the penis) could have been attached.

The parents, who must have been experiencing not only grief but embarrassment, implied to investigators that the son might have died of influenza. An autopsy was performed and investigators concluded that the

following reconstruction of the accident seems most plausible: the man had been kneeling on the floor, had already plugged in the cable, and had inserted the self-made electrode, which was connected to the tampon-shaped object, into his anus. When trying to apply the second, now missing, electrode (probably to the penis), he touched it with index and middle finger of the right hand. Thus the circuit was closed and he fell face down to the floor, where the electrode was pressed against his chest. The high flux of electricity through his heart caused fibrillation leading to death, whereas a flux from penis to anus would have spared the heart.

Because the police surgeon saw neither the cable nor the pornographic material, it can be supposed that the parents of the deceased tried to conceal the actual cause of death. When the cable was removed, the tampon-shaped object remained between the thighs and the second, now missing, electrode was torn from the cable.

In 2000 there was another case report titled “Accidental Electrocution During Autoeroticism: A Shocking Case.” This article included a picture of the dead perv lying face-down on his bed and another showing the two-bra contraption he had rigged up. This is what police found:

A morbidly obese 18-year-old white man was found lying prone on his bed. He had last been seen the previous evening. Investigators at the scene of the discovery recovered a single beer and literature depicting nude women near the victim. When found, the subject was wearing two brassieres (one underwire, one cotton), two pairs of men’s briefs, a gray short-sleeved tee-shirt, and an overlying red/maroon tank-top shirt. White plastic ties were attached to the sides of the crotch of the white briefs. A third pair of white men’s briefs was folded over the external genitalia and under the first two pairs of briefs. White plastic ties attached the two brassieres to the tank-top shirt at the levels of the right and left axillae and the right and left sides of the neck, causing horizontal foldings of the shirt. The gray tee shirt was under the tank-top shirt and over the brassieres. Both shirts and brassieres were cut at the clavicular regions. Underlying each brassiere cup were two wet folded terry cloths, with a metal washer loosely adherent to the outer cloth. The washers were wrapped in exposed wires from the two short ends of a Y-shaped black electrical cord. When the body was discovered, the long end of the cord was connected to a functional electrical outlet (110 V) via a two-pronged plug.

The ensuing discussion clarified how the circuitry worked:

House current was transmitted via the bifid electrical cord through the washers and wet terry cloths to the areolae… The presence of moistened terry cloths as conductors of electricity to the areolae was fairly distinctive and resulted in a diffuse application of electricity to the chest. It is conceivable that the cloths had been intended as a form of padding, perhaps the electrical equivalent of the ligature padding seen in cases of asphyxia. Additionally, the cloths produced a relatively diffuse pattern of electrical injury; thus, evaluation for evidence of similar previous injury may have been obscured.

Clearly these are sad stories. Sometimes the pursuit of pleasure causes a man to run off a cliff. Moralists will opine that people shouldn’t engage in these activities, that pervs shouldn’t play with fire if they don’t want to get burned. Maybe that’s true, and yet the fact remains that pervs are going to play with fire. It’s what they do. It’s what people do. Whether it’s driving too fast or inserting electrified tampons in their asses, people like to experiment and take risks. No amount of moralizing is going to prevent this.

If you look at these autoerotic electrocutions another way, you can see that these people died not just because they were experimenting with electricity. They died because they were experimenting with electricity by themselves. These are autoerotic fatalities, and it makes you wonder if these men might have lived had they only performed their experiments with a partner of some sort. You know how there is the Buddy System for swimming? Maybe that’s what is needed for the edgier forms of perversion as well — a Sex Buddy System.

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