This story is sad, bizarre, and serves as a huge caution to those who like to engage in what would be considered high-risk sexual behaviors.

A PA woman died while allegedly engaging in kinky sex acts with her husband.
"...he hooks clips to his wife's nipples and "plugs the cord into a electric strip" and shocks her....she removed her clothes, attached the clips, and shocked herself. He then picked up the electric strip and shocked her several more times, adding that he had placed a piece of electric tape over her mouth during the jolts. After the last shock, Kirsten, 29, "fell over on to her face." Taylor initially thought his wife was joking, but quickly realized she was unconscious."
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2008/0125081dryer1.html
He initially told the police (after dressing her) that she shocked herself with her blow dryer, then when his story din't hold up, he came clean and is now charged with manslaughter.

Here's another story (fewer details) of a woman who also died while engaging in kinky sex.....this time it wasn't electrocution but sadomasochistic (SM) sex using "very particular" accessories....she died of a heart attack. The article doesn't say whether he was ultimately charged with criminal negligence.
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/montreal/story/2008/02/26/qc-sadomacho-stbruno.html
Doesn't it seem like if the people choose to have sex like this, kinky or whatever, that the other person involved should NOT be charged with a crime? It's 2 consenting adults after all, and there's no law prohibiting them from doing what they're doing in the privacy of their home.....if there's evidence that the other person was negligent and took it too far, then maybe yeah a crime has been committed but it seems like they're a little too trigger happy with charging these people with a "crime."
Ulysses 2008-03-05