Why have vanilla sex when you can add a little kink to spice things up! Besides, a little kink never hurt anyone. For me, my answer to the question, "What is your "favorite" method of Asphyxia practiced?", I would have to list my top five favorite Activities, in order, (1) hanging (fully suspended); (2) strangled with a belt; (3) strangled with a scarf; (4) strangled with latex or surgical gloved hands, and (5) strangled by bare hands.
The survey is very interesting, and as has been mentioned, I don't think things have changed all that much since this survey was taken more than 23-years ago. I do think the embracing of extremism has greatly increased, especially among Gay guys, that guys into asphyxia are far more extreme and take way more chances, too often resulting in someone accidentally hanging himself. After all, there are a lot worse ways to die! In addition, isn't doing something that gives you such a sexual high while greatly increasing the possibility of death part of the turn-on?
I know that it's my second personal preference, but I'm surprised that nobody chose to be strangled with a belt. I started out strangling myself with a leather belt when I was in my very early teens, and when I met the love of my life and became sexually active when I was 18, being strangled with a belt during a hot sexual encounter became a very important part of both foreplay and especially penetration. The one thing about the love of my life, he was also into being strangled with a belt. Having a belt looped around my neck and pulled tight to strangle me as I'm being penetrated makes penetration so heavenly! I can be penetrated hard and deep with a single hard thrust! What's surprising is that I've found guys open to accommodating my fetish. Is it a real problem that I can't enjoy having a guy shove his cock into my ass unless I am being strangled? I don't think so!
My most favorite method still is to be hanged. I first experienced the erotic pleasure derived from being hanged fully suspended by my neck when I was 14-years-old. That was such a risk for me as back when I was a teenager, I was extremely suicidal, and often thought about not stepping back onto the chair I stepped off to suspend myself by my neck. Being hanged fully suspended by my neck while my partner is enjoying my throbbing cock in his mouth drives my own orgasm over the top. Unfortunately, about six years ago, I was engaged in a hot encounter with a guy, and as I started to go, he pushed the stool away. The instant I became fully suspended and the noose tightened to the max around my neck, I felt a crack in my neck and excruciating pain that was concentrated in my upper neck, which lasted for a couple of days. A month later, it happened again, only that second time, the excruciating pain lasted several days. After it happened a third and fourth time, leaving me with excruciating neck pain that was lasting for weeks that unfortunately forced me to give up the pleasure. Oh well, being strangled with a belt looped tight around my neck is just as pleasurable and sexy.
Someone mentioned David Carradine. As I write this, I am exactly four years younger than Mr. Carradine was when he accidentally hanged himself. So, at my age, if I were to accidentally go too far, get careless and hang myself until I was dead, oh well! Plus, as I indicated, my neck has begun to weaken, so I've developed the strong possibility of me breaking my neck. Again, if it were to happen, oh well! And yes, I'm one of those guys who looks at death by either hanging or strangulation as a very sexy death even if my death when I'm hanged was due to my neck breaking!