ASPHYXIATION
Asphyxiation is the term used to describe the manner in which a person died. In one way or another the air was cut off to the lungs. It broadly refers to suffocation by fluid, chemical or gas filling the lungs and stopping the oxygen generating process.
SEXUAL ASPHYX (SEXUAL ASPHYXIA)
SEXUAL ASPHYX is the term used to describe a violent form of sexual stimulation during intercourse or sexual foreplay. In Sexual Asphyx the subject has the air cut off in a variety of ways for a short period of time. This can be done once or repeatedly.
In any manner that the breath of the subject is controlled, the activity is short term and monitored to ensure that the activity is aborted before the partner suffers brain damage or actually dies from being asphyxiated.
AUTOEROTIC SEXUAL ASPHYXIA is the term used to describe the act of Sexual Asphyxia performed by an individual without the assistance of another person. This is a most dangerous type of activity.
IN EITHER CASE of Sexual Asphyxia or Autoerotic Sexual Asphyx, the person that is having their breath controlled or is controlling their own breath is called a GASPER.
GASPERS
The term Gasper is belived to have originated in the Red Light Districts of 18th-19th Century England.
GASPER refers to a living subject. When a person is engaged in sexual asphyx and is having their breath controlled properly it is a natural effect that she would be gasping for air in between sessions.
Although Gasping originated from a male dominant female subjugate, it has become popular between same sex as well as reverse role playing couples. Auto or solo gasping is unpopular due to the dangers involved and it is more of a form of masturbation. There is more enjoyment and safety in playing with a partner.
This is a very old term that had been used to describe "ladies of the evening" who found that they could hurry a session with some clients by allowing the client to choke them during sex. This would get the client off faster and allow them to move on to the next client and make more money in an evening.
While there are terms used to describe ladies that use bondage or other activities to hurry a client along, the term gasper was used by the client to suggest the type of activity he wanted and narrow it down to a specific group of ladies.
During the time that a girl was being choked she would be gasping for air. Sometimes she would over emphasize her gasping moans to increase the stimulation of her client. Of course there were times when she would really be choked and would actually be gasping for air.
The word was also later used to describe any woman who found it enjoyable to be "breath controled" in one form or another during sex.
GASPERs enjoy a wide variety of breath control. Gasping can be accomplished by ,neck pinching the arteries, circumference choking, nose pinching, smothering, hanging, chest compression, gas inhalants chemicals or just about any other means or method to stop the blood to the brain.
Why do it?
Gaspers report that during the time that they are deprived of oxygen that they begin to sense a feeling of euphoria during the time that the brain is starved for oxygen. They also report a heightened sexual experience during the time that they are gasping. They find that the climax of the experience is to be gasping during sex, to be oxygen deprived up to the point of near orgasm, then be released and have a fresh supply of oxygen hit the brain at the moment of orgasm. They are using the mechanism of asphyxia as a sex device. Like a mink glove or a vibrator or oils.
The reports and experiences vary but the end result is usually the same. Great sex.
