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Hey, I have a little confession to make before we get to your calls.

Sometimes when the tax-heavy at-risk youth have to, you know,

dick off to Burning Man or wherever it is, they go for weeks at a time,

they come home with their dreads freshly ratted and

their armpits freshly rank. Or I have to go away on vacation, somewhere wholesome with my family.

We record a few shows in advance. We just bank them so that we can have them blast out every Tuesday

and you can get your Savage Lovecast needs met, and we can work a vacation in.

So the last couple of weeks, we had some shows in the bank, which is why you didn't hear anything

for me about David Carradine's big, stupid, auto erotic asphyxiation, annihilation.

Because, you know, we banked a few shows.

So, you know, I'm going to let's a call another.

Why are you talking about David Caradine? Well, we didn't talk about him because we weren't psychic and the shows were recorded in advance so we couldn't see into David Keratin's future, sure, sure, sure. But here are my thoughts for everyone who's calling in. A, autoerotic as fixation, that's a really stupid, dangerous thing to do, obviously, as evidenced by David Caradine's demise.

Slate.com had a good piece on whether or not there's a safe way to engage in autoerotic asphyxiation, and there is not.

There are some ways to make this dangerous thing a little less dangerous without it being not dangerous don't do it a alone in a hotel room uh where there isn't going to be someone there who can

push you off that rope if you start to really go and people asking why people do it people are

fucking nuts that's why people do it, people are fucking nuts. That's why people do it. Some people find or have discovered or experiment with oxygen deprivation at the time of orgasm and find that sort of race between blacking out and coming. The sensation to be very similar and I'm not recommending this and I don't want to talk about it for fear that

someone's going to go up. It's really that intense. People are willing to risk death for it.

Maybe I should try it. Maybe it's good. Don't go there. Don't do it. There are some people in BDSM

land who engage in a form of asphyxatory play. I'm not sure a fixatory is a word, but I'm just

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