Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index Self-bondage is the practice of sexual bondage without a partner: that is to say, tying oneself up for sexual pleasure. Self-bondage that results in any degree of helplessness is extremely dangerous, and has frequently led to unintended death. Many deaths result each year from self-bondage activities. It is estimated that there are 500 to 1,000 autoerotic deaths each year in the United States, of which a substantial proportion are self-bondage deaths. Self-bondage has all the risks of physical restraint and sexual bondage, with the added problem that should anything go wrong, there is no-one to release you. Even apparently easily escapable self-bondage can become impossible to escape when problems set in. For example, apparently easy escapes can become impossible when blood circulation cuts off sensation in limbs or postural asphyxia leads to loss of consciousness. Often, people who practice self-bondage design ingenious self-rescue methods to set themselves free, only to die when these methods fail. Combining self-bondage with autoerotic asphyxia, itself a potentially lethal practice, presents an extraordinary high risk of death. Many such deaths happen each year. The death in 1984 of Stephen Milligan, the British Conservative MP for Eastleigh, was a case of auto-erotic asphyxiation combined with self-bondage. See also: Autoerotic fatalities External links A set of summaries of and references to articles on self-bondage fatalities This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.