The people of his auto-erotic novel Crash coil sex, death, and the motor car, a megadose of pleasure brew.
Michael Hutchence, the lead singer of INXS, allegedly died of an auto-erotic accident, as did Kung Fu star David Carradine.
Nor can it be consummated without leaving behind as useless a large number of the auto-erotic instinctive impulses.
No doubt there has been a tendency to exaggerate the unpleasant character of the auto-erotic phenomena of hysteria.
But the presence of such a repugnance, however invincible, is very far from carrying us outside the auto-erotic field.
Such cases are not uncommon, and in some measure, no doubt, they may be accounted for by auto-erotic nocturnal hallucinations.
In classical days, doubtless, masturbation and all other forms of the auto-erotic impulse were comparatively rare.