A MASTURBATION crisis is rocking Germany, with as many as 100 people dying every year from ‘risky masturbation practices’.

But dangerous solo sex is becoming a global issue, with forensic examiners claiming one to two people per one million are killed annually in the act of searching for the ‘ultimate orgasm’, which in most fatal cases can mean oxygen deprivation.

It comes as the body of a man was reportedly found in Hamburg covered in sliced cheese with pantyhose pulled up over his upper body, while he was wearing a diving suit and a raincoat.

He had placed a plastic bag over his head and was sat in front of an active heater, according to local media.

Another man was found at the end of last year, having died from auto-asphyxiation when he was wrapped in chains in a room where ‘pornographic images were present’.

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However the official numbers that show masturbation as the cause of death are low, and forensic physician Dr Harald Voss predicts this is because unreported cases are ‘extremely high’.

He said friends or family hide evidence because they feel ashamed about what has happened.

“The number of unreported cases is extremely high, which is a very rare case in forensic medicine,” Dr Voss told German newspaper Bild, claiming to have personally seen only five cases throughout his more than 30 year career as a forensic physician.

Additionally, if police find the cause of death to be accidental, where the victim is naked, pornographic material is present, no farewell letter is left behind, there’s a nearby mirror as well as other telltale signs, the body does not go to forensics.

In one example, a man was discovered by his mother with Christmas tree lights clamped to his nipples, but she removed them before emergency services arrived.

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They were initially confused why he had burn marks on his body but his mother came clean and admitted what she had originally found.

It was concluded that the cause of death was electrocution.

The Institute of Legal Medicine has investigated 40 accidental autoerotic fatalities in northern Germany between 1983 and 2003 with all the victims being males between the ages of 13 and 79.

Dr Voss warns evidence that could point towards the scene of an autoerotic death included exposed genitalia, restraints that could have been self administered, mirrors placed near the body, plastic bags around the head, porn, and the lack of a suicide note.