A businessman who was found dead at an all-male gay spa could have died as the result of a sex game that went wrong, a court heard yesterday.
The Straits Times reports that Mr Yeo Hung Song may have been practising auto-erotic asphyxiation, which involves starving the brain of oxygen to increase sexual arousal.
But State Coroner Imran Abdul Hamid said that suicide was also a possibility.
He added that the 48-year-old restaurant boss, who was not married, suffered from depression and was believed to have harboured suicidal tendencies.
Mr Yeo was found dead in a cubicle at Club One Seven Spa & Gym - which is strictly for men only and has membership cards that list no names but only numbers.
The court heard that he arrived on a motorbike at about 2pm on Nov 19 last year.
He then used the facilities before entering Room 5, which featured a saddle bench with wooden legs and a 2m-tall metal frame that had metal chains dangling from each corner.
At 9.30pm, cleaner Asrin Ali, 45, knocked on the door of the locked cubicle but got no response.
Mr Yeo was found naked, on bended knees and there was a chain around his neck.
On the floor was a towel, which was later found to contain semen.
The businessman’s clothes were in a locker and there was no sign of a struggle.
Mr Yeo, a partner of a restaurant on Thomson Road, was a regular patron, visiting the club one to two times a week.
The inquiry heard he told a friend two weeks before his death that he wanted to commit suicide.
There is a clear difference between promoting gay rights such as gay marriages (Which TRS openly supports) and promoting this type of sleazy place for the gay community.
Opening kinky nude saunas and providing sex toys for people to have casual sex would also be frowned upon even if the target audience were heterosexuals.
However, we urge our readers not to assume that everyone in the gay community embrace and engage in this kind of lifestyle. In actual fact only a small minority of them visit such places.
Taking gay rights to such extremes is only reinforcing the stereotype that homosexuals are unatural or extremely perverted. Activist such as blogger Alex Au who push for such "rights" only serve to give the gay community a bad name.
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