The practice has been described in medical literature for over 100 years, in fact, in Victorian England there was a Hanged Men's Club in London that specialized in getting its members off through strangulation.Source: The Archives of Sexual Behavior, Vol. 18, No. 3, 181-189Chasing the Big OThe first time I heard about auto-erotic asphyxiation was when INXS lead singer Michael Hutchence died.