On Mar 4, 2010, at 1:25 PM, Miles Jackson wrote:
> Doug Henwood wrote:
>> No source given. From Popbitch:
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>> "In USA there is more than one death per day from auto-erotic
>> asphyixiation."
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> Hey, it's a big country.
A Wikipedia article on the topic mentions 117 cases in Alberta & Ontario alone over the course of 13 years. That's almost 10 a year. A rough version of that frequency would work out to one every two days in the U.S. So it's not outlandish at all.