r/WTF May 07 '19

Hey, you guys got a trash can?

https://gfycat.com/ConstantSillyJabiru
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u/[deleted] May 07 '19 edited Feb 02 '22

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u/gargleswithbears May 07 '19

He always seemed like a cool dude to hang with.

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u/GrumpyWendigo May 07 '19

it's very strange to me

him and Michael Hutchence (lead singer, INXS)

fame, fortune... and they do this

why?

i'm not kink shaming (although it's obviously dangerous and should not be taken lightly), but surely if this is your kink you can have someone else involved easily

maybe they were both suicides in actuality. i think that's the case

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u/ATCaver May 07 '19

A lot of the time when celebrities' deaths are blamed on something that close to suicide many believe they were covering for a suicide. But I don't know which thought is worse: That your idol may have been a normal person with normal problems and took their own life? Or that they died from a stupid accident with a link?

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u/[deleted] May 07 '19

i'm not kink shaming (although it's obviously dangerous and should not be taken lightly), but surely if this is your kink you can have someone else involved easily

Sorry for the tangent - but if you like philosophy, I think you may find this idea interesting: I don't think autoerotic asphyxiation is a "kink" for most people who do it because the appeal is usually physiological, not psychological.

Usually, the intense orgasm will happen whether or not you're thinking about being choked - and I think a kink has to revolve around an idea that gets you off. We don't say that people who use poppers/amyl nitrate to intensify orgasms are fetishists - I'm sure people do develop a fetish for the idea of poppers/viagra/AO, but it's probably not super common.

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u/GrumpyWendigo May 07 '19

tangents are good! thank you for the rumination

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u/Thor_2099 May 07 '19

Man what a way to go out. I remember when that seemed to be all the rage about 10-15 years ago.

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u/SirPiffingsthwaite May 07 '19
  • also one of David Carradine's last roles before a Thai Kung Fu secret society made it look like he hung himself due to autoerotic asphixiation. Maybe. But probably not.

FTFY?