[trean362]

Men often have erections and ejaculate when hanged. Some refer to this as “angel lust”. Similar engorgement of the labia and mucus secretions have been observed in females undergoing violent death or hanging. It is so familiar that there is even a myth that the mandrake plant grows under the gallows where a man has ejaculated!

I have seen a few posts on this subject but very few pictures. I have attempted to bring these all together in 1 post but with many more images added. Apologies if you recognise a picture from an older post.

Why would a guy or gal get an erection or ejaculate, facing a violent death? I think it could be 4 things:

1) Often with fear there is a response of the vagus parasympathetic nerve stimulation triggering a bladder detruser smooth muscle contraction, causing an extreme form of urge incontinence – they pee themselves. This pressure on the bladder may produce enough stimulation to reduce the sympathetic nervous system’s central inhibition to erection, especially if the bladder is almost empty - they get an erection from the sudden urge to pee. This could be if the victim becomes uninhibited in the face of death.

2) Acute cervical spinal cord transection produces immediate erection or priapism. Men subjected to capital punishment by hanging and laboratory animals sacrificed with cervical dislocation have terminal erections. This could be again due to a reduction of the sympathetic nervous system’s central inhibition to erection.

3) Death by hanging, whether an execution or a suicide, fatal gunshot wound, damage to the cerebellum or damage to the major blood vessels, have been observed to affect the genitals of both men and women. In women, the labia and clitoris will become engorged and there may be a discharge of mucus from the vagina. In men, "a more or less complete state of erection of the penis, with discharge of urine, mucus or prostatic fluid is a frequent occurrence ... present in one case in three." This doesn’t always include sperm cells interestingly.

4) When a person is hanged, the blood will accumulate in their lower part: legs, feet and genitals. If the legs are filled with blood, the blood under gravity can engorge the penis's erectile tissue producing an erection, or engorge the female labia and clitoris after death.

Have you come across any better explanations?

[K53]

Fantastic collection......

[BuckRoger]

Fantastic fakes... count for gayclub

[mshope24]

Penises are so beautiful.

[William May]

Well, another odd and interesting fact I learned on DR. You guys rock!

[P4Pking-1]

Is this a particular "interest" of yours? It seems that you have quite the fetish...... Hey to each their own , long as you don't try to recreate your own....

[Sonnirae]

Impressive and I learned something new. Thank you!

[Sharon]

Some of these images appear to be fakes and autoerotica (cartoon images depicting sexual scenario removed) but from doing a quick scoot on Google this Angel Lust (or 72 Virgins Lust) phenominia is indeed true

What many people do not know is that the erection is a passive action. In fact, when men do not have erection, the penis makes an effort: the smooth muscles of the arteries at the base of the penis must stay contracted, in order to impede the blood filling the penis. (In fact, most aphrodisiacs, including Viagra, contain a chemical(s) that relax these muscles).

No wonder dead people can have erections. A death erection (also named "angel lust") is a postmortem erection happening when the man dies vertically or face-down and the corpse remains so.

When the body is dead, the smooth muscles of the arteries relax (in fact, die) but this is not enough: the blood cannot enter the penis as the heart no longer pumps it, creating pressure for entering the penis' vessels. In the dead body, only gravitation acts on the blood. This means that the blood accumulates at the lowest point of the body, provoking a swelling of the dead tissue; the upper located part of the body discolors, leaving the dead body's lividity. In the mentioned cases, the blood enters by gravitation into the dead penis, causing an erection.

When a person is hanged, the blood will accumulate in its lower part: legs and feet. If the legs are filled with blood, the blood in the waist can causes an erection, entering the penis's erectile tissue. As long as the blood is not clotted, the body must stay in that position to maintain the death erection.

Death erection can also be provoked by a traumatic death, especially asphyxiation (like in strangulation or hanging), being induced by an arousal which, of course, have very little to do with sex, accompanying the final spasms of the nervous system, and in this case ejaculation may take place. Some link this to brain or spinal cord injuries caused by the noose, as priapism in living men has been associated with such conditions.

On war time, death erection made an excellent war trophy, a method of humiliating the enemy by displaying their posthumous copulating organ.

Hanged women too can present a corespondent to this, translated trough engorged labia and vaginal discharges.

Other rapid or violent deaths too can cause angel lust: bullet wounds to the brain or large blood vessels or poisoning

http://www.documentingreality.com/fo...-deaths-68793/
http://news.softpedia.com/news/Dead-...oo-77649.shtml
http://www.urbandictionary.com/defin...erm=Angel+Lust
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_erection

And so the list goes on...

[wmbondurant]

Death the new aph*ro*dis*i*ac

[facing_reality]

Ask David Carradine..... oh, wait.....