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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    That is a seriously problematic study with few controls and a small sample size.

    Pilots regularly train in for hypoxia in hyperbaric chambers, losing consciousness repeatedly to train.

    Consent and education are important, but safely engaging in breath play is very unlikely to give your partner brain damage.

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      3 hours ago

      This is patently false. It cause brain death period. Perhaps you can argue it is not that big of a deal because of the brains ability to rewire itself once you have destroyed a portion of it

      People do all kinds a bad activities for the brain so this is really nothing new.

      One person’s breath play (so gross to minimize it this way) is another person’s sexual violence.

      Edit: I would also like to point out frequency. The frequency of preferred sexual activity dwarfs the training you are talking about. Seems like a convenient and not thought out excuse.

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        One person’s breath play (so gross to minimize it this way) is another person’s sexual violence.

        Well, yeah, all forms of sex without consent are rape. This isn’t really saying anything.

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          I think you don’t get that the majority of women getting choked never gave consent. The extreme minority of people who do this consensually are just that.

          What is happening is a lot of men choking women because they can and women putting up with it.

          This is also similar to everyone knows a women who has been raped but no one knows a rapist.