Online pornography showing strangulation or suffocation is to be made illegal, as part of government plans to tackle violence against women and girls.

It follows a review which found depictions of choking were “rife” on mainstream porn sites and had helped normalise the act among young people.

Both the possession and publication of such material will be a criminal offence, under amendments to the Crime and Policing Bill currently going through Parliament.

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    Choking cause permanent brain damage period. MRI scans prove that the brain has to literally rewire itself do to massive cell death.

    Furthermore, this is a one way street with the vast majority being males choking women. Over 58% percent of undergraduate women report a choking incident during sex.

    Only 8% of men report choking during sex. If this is such a “universal” fetish why is it so one sided. This is because it isn’t. Choking is rarely consensual and even if it is it is extremely damaging to the human mind.

    https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9201570/

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      That paper isn’t quite as compelling as I’d hoped it would be for your conclusions. It’s good research, but I’d really like to see a larger sample size, differentiation as to whether people are choked to the point of passing out, and more cognitive tests (because this paper didn’t see any decrease in ability).

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        For sure, but it is not new knowledge that brain cells are very oxygen dependent. Even brief lapses of oxygen to the brain causes cell death.

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      Choking as a sex act does not necessarily involve blood or oxygen deprivation. For most people it’s just a firm hand on their throat.

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        There is no safe way to constrict breathing. What you saying is not choking or strangulation.

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                  Yeah that’s my point, the evidence indicates it wasn’t an accidental death from an extreme sex act, it was a wholly intentional murder

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                    Dude, do you really need me to prove that people are accidently choked to death during sex acts around the world on a daily basis? I can’t even with you right now.

                    “Strangulation – fatal and non-fatal – “squeezing”, “neck compression” or, as some call, it “breath-play” – is highly gendered. On average, one woman in the UK is strangled to death by her partner every two weeks”

                    Where are all the men deaths from choking due to sex!?

                    Your inability to see what is going on is a major failing on your part. That is okay, because you didn’t know better until now.

                    Edit: Death does not even account for brain damage, PTSD, and the epidemic of women being choked against their will.