OH NO, NO, GOD NO, MY KID WOULD NEVER DO THAT !

The body of Kung Fu actor David Carradine has been returned to the U.S. from Thailand where he had been found hanged to death in a hotel last week.

The very first reports suggested that he had committed suicide, but later reports implied that he had died as the result of auto-erotic asphyxiation (AEA [my designation]), also known as sexual asphyxia.

AEA is an "enjoyable" dangerous practice by people who get their jollies off by choking themselves. It usually occurs among males, often boys as young as 14-16. But women also are known to obtain sexual gratification through AEA. The practitioners usually hang themselves or place their heads inside a plastic bag and experience an orgasm when they are on the verge of losing consciousness. With males, death by AEA is detected during an autopsy when ejaculated semen is observed.

AEA cases are actually not that uncommon and are often mistaken for suicide, sometimes even for murder. In fact, they are accidental deaths because the victims, even though they deliberately asphyxiated themselves, had no intention of dying.

It is almost impossible for parents to accept the fact that their young children have been practicing a weird form of sexual activity. When confronted with the death of a child by AEA their typical reaction is, "Oh no, no, God no, my kid would never do that!" They may insist that their beloved son was murdered or, if not that, they will even insist the death had to be a suicide, as they will never ever accept a finding of death by AEA.