Autoerotic asphyxiation, or AEA, is the practice of self-strangulation, typically by the use of a ligature, while masturbating. The decrease of blood to the brain is said to heighten the sexual pleasure as more endorphines are produced when the body reaches the near state of asphyxia. AEA is an extremely dangerous practice that results in many deaths each year, most of them accidental. A small number of people doing AEA use a plastic bag over their head. But most prefer the strangulation method. 99% of those practising AEA or showing an interest to do so are said to be men. AEA is virtually ...

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She did not begin writing until she reached her thirties. Her first novel, Cover Her Face, featuring the investigator/poet Adam Dalgliesh of New Scotland Yard, was published in 1962. James retired in 1979 to devote herself to her writing. She has said that her influences include Jane Austen, Dorothy L. Sayers, herself a well-known British author of mysteries, Graham Greene and Evelyn Waugh. Many of P.D. James' mystery novels take place against the backdrop of Britain's vast bureaucracies such as the criminal justice system and ...

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Her detective novels include: Cover Her Face (1962) (introducing her Scotland Yard detective Adam Dalgliesh) A Mind to Murder (1963) Unnatural Causes (1967) Shroud for a Nightingale (1971) The Maul and the Pear Tree: The Ratcliffe Highway Murders, 1811 (with Thomas A. Critchley), 1971 An Unsuitable Job for a Woman (1972) (introducing her female sleuth called Cordelia Gray) The Black Tower (1975) Death of an Expert W ...

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