asphyxiophiliac

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noun

A person who enjoys erotic asphyxiation.

Scrabble 37

Meanings

nounasphyxiophiliac (plural asphyxiophiliacs)

plural asphyxiophiliacs

  1. A person who enjoys erotic asphyxiation.

    I am an asphyxiophiliac. I started to strangle myself when I was sixteen. I didn't hang myself, however, I choked!

    1995, John M. Grossberg, Eccentric and Bizarre Behaviors, Wiley, →ISBN, page 112
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    The lust murderer, the necrophile, the autassassinophilac and the asphyxiophiliac are defined and diagnosed within sexology partly by their compulsion to perform their act.

    2011, Sarah Toulalan, Bodies, Sex and Desire from the Renaissance to the Present, Springer, →ISBN, page 217

    McCarry was an asphyxiophiliac who had a history of engaging in autoerotic asphyxiation and Waters had full knowledge of this fact.

    2016, Dennis J. Baker, Reinterpreting Criminal Complicity and Inchoate Participation Offences, Routledge, →ISBN, page 270

Origin

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APA

asphyxiophiliac. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/asphyxiophiliac

MLA

“asphyxiophiliac.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/asphyxiophiliac. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

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