David Carradine is dead, apparently the self-created victim of the dumbest sex act ever, auto-erotic asphyxiation. We can now add Grasshopper the legion of  men who have killed themselves jacking off with a rope or other ligature around their necks. The number of deaths annually from AEA is hard to pin down–estimates vary from 50 to 1,000–because families, police and coroners may be discreet in reporting the exact circumstances. Creepily it’s a rising trend amongst teens.

Auto-erotic asphyxiation is a really stupid, dangerous and post-mortemly embarrassing way to masturbate. Carradine who had a remarkable career comeback with Kill Bill kinda screwed over everybody on the set of Stretch, which he was shooting in Bangkok at the time of his death. Now like Conservative English Member of Parliament Stephen Milligan and National Front (White Power) leader Kristian Etchells, David Carradine is on the list of really effing moronic wankers.

Prior to Carradine’s death, Michael Hutchence of INXS most famously died this way, leaving us with the legacy of the reality show Rock Star: INXS.

I feel a great deal of sympathy for the families of these men, but seriously, like what’s wrong with a fifi bag and a copy of Justine?