breath control

Definition

Sexual arousal from the control or restriction of oxygen to the brain through strangulation (compressing the carotid arteries to prevent oxygenated blood from reaching the brain), suffocation (reducing the oxygen available to breathe), hanging (suspending the body by the neck). CAUTION: a) All of these activities are extremely dangerous. b) Judicial hanging is intended to break the spine, not cause death by suffocation.
See also: asphyxiaphilia; autoerotic asphixia(tion); erotic self-strangulation; autoerotic srangulation; scarfing; strangulation fetish; sexual asphyxia; hypoxyphilia.