I heard this on the radio. What a horrible way to find the body of a loved one.

Question, isn't nitrous oxide an anesthetic ? Seems like that would lessen the pleasure of masturbation.

I understand there is supposed to be some sort of increase pleasure by asphyxiating yourself which I imagine N2O will do, but I'd think that reducing feeling would reduce the pleasure (or even prevent it from happening) more than the asphyxiation would increase it.

You're right, but it might also be the dose that counts?
Anyway, it is said to give you a nice feeling, not so much reduce feeling.
Maybe you'll feel nice enough not to care about pain when it is used as an anesthetic, and maybe you'll feel nice enough not to care about male body parts not working if you use it on a recreational basis.

It's possible that the mechanism for reducing pain might not reduce other sensations. It may even heighten them.

Pain and pleasure are responses to different receptors being stimulated so blocking pain receptors may not block pleasure ones.

Nitrous oxide is the propellant used in cans of whipped cream. I'm certainly not advocating it's use, especially given the context of this comment and the outcome of the story that facilitated it, but if any adventurous Plimates want to knock back a few whip-its while knocking one out, then please let us know the outcome.

When we got Nitrous Oxide on our ambulances we had to take a class and actually use it, to see what it felt like.

Each inhale is equal to 4mg of morphine. It is fast acting and really fast to recover from as well....patients can use the inhaler themselves when they feel pain they can self dose themselves after we set up the doseage for them.

Anyhoo....

My partner wimped out and took one inhale and said he didn't feel crap.

I said "gimme that thing!" (I mean, free drugs and inhouse at the EMS station and APPROVED by the medical director!?!?!)

I took 4 long fast hits on it, the room started to spin and I felt like I was going to pass out.

I didn't feel like laughing at all. But it definitely gave me a feel for how much my patients should be sucking on that thing!!

I guess if you don't come up for air and you are only sucking nitrous, you can die, but generally it is pretty safe otherwise.

Hippy Crack! We used to take tanks of this on tour with us back in the day. If we had any left it would come home and we would have one heck of a party. I won't argue with a trained professional but my personal observations have taught me that this stuff can be very dangerous. One buddy fell over into a campfire, another one was pale as a sheet with blue lips and a heart rate of around 35. We found him like that passed out in his tent by himself. I would never recommend doing it by yourself unless you have only a very small amount. Having said that, I have also done the deed while sucking down a balloon. I should say I've tried to do the deed, I lost track of what I was doing. If you take in enough you get what is called the "wah wahs" where everything looks and sounds like it is being distorted by some cosmic wah wah pedal. I can't see how somebody could concentrate long enough to get themselves off while on this stuff.