EXCLUSIVE It's caused the most unimaginable deaths. But bizarre hobby gripping America is also a secret source of deep sexual arousal
There is a growing subculture of amateur explorers building homemade submarines in their backyards and garages. But it might be driven by something more insidious than a quirky passion for engineering or a curiosity about the deep sea.
A new book suggests that the bizarre hobby of plunging thousands of feet in makeshift submersibles could, for some, be linked to unusual sexual desires and Freudian fantasies of returning to a 'womb-like' state - impulses that, in extreme cases, overlap with violence.
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