The relationship between serial sexual murder and autoerotic asphyxiation
| Autor: | Kenneth Adams, Alexandr Bukhanovskiy, Wade C. Myers, Virgil L. Vandagriff, John Tilley, Robert R. Hazelwood, Robert J. Morton, Elle Justen |
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| Rok vydání: | 2007 |
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Adult
Male Adolescent Population Transvestic fetishism Sadistic personality disorder Poison control Criminology Sexual Sadism Pathology and Forensic Medicine Asphyxia medicine Humans education Hypoxia Brain Criminal Psychology education.field_of_study Sadomasochism Paraphilic Disorders Sex Offenses Forensic Psychiatry Middle Aged medicine.disease Sexual Masochism Paraphilia Psychology Homicide Law |
| Zdroj: | Forensic science international. 176(2-3) |
| ISSN: | 1872-6283 |
| Popis: | This case series documents and examines the association between autoerotic asphyxiation, sadomasochism, and serial sexual murderers. Autoerotic asphyxiation, along with other paraphilias found in this population, is reviewed. Five cases of serial sexual killers who engaged in autoerotic asphyxiation were identified worldwide: four from the United States and one from Russia. Case reports for each are provided. All (100%) were found to have sexual sadism in addition to autoerotic asphyxiation. Furthermore, two (40%) had bondage fetishism, and two (40%) had transvestic fetishism, consistent with these paraphilias co-occurring in those with autoerotic asphyxiation. Overall the group averaged 4.0 lifetime paraphilias. Some possible relationships were observed between the offenders' paraphilic orientation and their modus operandi, e.g., all of these serial killers strangled victims-suggesting an association between their sadistic and asphyxiative paraphilic interests. The overlap of seemingly polar opposite paraphilias in this sample--sexual sadism and autoerotic asphyxiation--is explored from a historical and clinical perspective. Multiple commonalities shared between these five offenders and serial sexual murderers in general are addressed. A primary limitation of this study is its small sample size and empirical basis; the results may not be generalizable beyond the sample. The findings from this study support the supposition that crime scene behaviors often reflect paraphilic disturbances in those who commit serial sexual homicides. |
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