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.

  • Doomsider@lemmy.world
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    6 hours ago

    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.