Auto-erotic asphyxiation: David Carradine?

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Portrait of David Carradine by Mark Berry – Photographer & Graphic Designer.

Shades of Michael Hutchence? Do not Kill Bill with kinky sex, please. :( This is breaking from newswire: David Carradine, who sadly passed away yesterday, might have have died as a result of erotic asphyxiation in a very curious circumstance — here’s the snip:

BANGKOK, Thailand (BNO NEWS) — “Kung Fu” and “Kill Bill” star David Carradine was found dead in his hotel room in Bangkok on Thursday, a U.S. State Department official told BNO News. He was 72-years-old.

Carradine had been in Bangkok since Tuesday to shoot an upcoming movie called “Strand”. A U.S. State Department official said that Thai officials had notified the U.S. Embassy in Bangkok that Carradine had died but further details were not immediately released out of consideration for his family.

Thai police officials, however, say that Carradine failed to show up when he and his film crew were supposed to dine at a Thai restaurant on Wednesday but the film crew assumed he took a break because of his age.

On Thursday, a hotel maid found the star dead in a closet when she opened his suite at around 10 a.m. local time. There were no visible signs of a struggle but officials now believe he may have died from accidental suffocation or heart failure due to an orgasm. Thai police say suicide has not been ruled out either.

Officials told reporters that the actor was found naked, curled up inside the wardrobe with one end of a shoelace tied around his penis and the other end fastened around his neck. Both of his hands were bound with a cord which was also tied around his neck.

It is believed Carradine died some 12 to 24 hours before he was found by the hotel maid. The head of the autopsy division at Bangkok’s Chulalongkorn Hospital called his death “abnormal”, but did not elaborate, according to local media.

Forensic experts have also reportedly found a footprint on the bed which did not match the shoes worn by the actor, the Bangkok Post reported. There was also a glass of water in the room and experts are checking to see if the drink had been tampered with. It is unclear if a second person was with him in the room when he died.

Carradine’s manager, however, told CNN’s Larry King that he had been told “there was foul play” involved.(…BNO News via adjix.com)

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  4. evilgrrl · Edit

    I have experienced non-erotic, accidental asphyxiation from choking, and it was horrible. I do not *judge* people who engage in erotic asphyxiation, but I consider it outside the realm of safe, sane and consensual. Call it RACK and do it if you want, but I will never try it.

  5. Jim Pivonka · Edit

    I once experienced an involuntary, spontaneous “erotic asphyxiation”. My breating stopped, spontaneously; I could not control it, nor begin breathing again for 10’s of seconds; I called upon a combination of relaxation discipline worthy of an adept plus near loss of consciousness to restore breathing, and managed to conceal my panic from my partner.

    I’ve have never been quite so willing to use repeated cycling of near O tension heighten the intensity of orgasm since – too much intensity, and “the little death” can feel awfully close to the real thing.

  7. Christopher · Edit

    There IS no safe way to practice auto-erotic asphyxiation. Erotic asphyxiation with a SSC partner is one thing, and many people practice it in their sexual repertoire. But if you practice this alone, you already know how you’re probably going to die. It’s only a matter of time…

    I am devastated. I grew up on reruns of Kwai Chang Kain.

  8. Ted T. · Edit

    His hands were bound? Sorry, but that definitely wasn’t “auto”. Why would you want to tie your hands when jerking off? And why do it in the closet? Either he was murdered, or it was kinky sex with a prostitute gone very bad.

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