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Online porn showing choking to be made illegal, government says (www.bbc.com)

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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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[–] ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 27 points 2 days ago (4 children)

This is in direct response to some recent studies that claimed that chocking is the second most common cause of stroke in women under 40. Other studied found that there is no safe amount of oxygen deprivation, any chocking leads to brain damage. Other risks of choking are difficulty swallowing, incontinence, seizures, memory problems, depression, anxiety and miscarriage.

What happened is that porn normalized chocking. It used to be limited to the "hard core" types of porn but now it's mainstream and kids that grew up watching it think it's just normal part of sex. Most women asked about it say that they don't enjoy it but do it "for their partner’s pleasure".

So yeah, the government treats it as a public health issue and bans it.

I'm not a scientists, I didn't review all those studies and frankly I don't care one way of the other. Just wanted to give people some context.

You can read more about it here: https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2025/jul/07/no-safe-way-risks-of-choking-during-sex

[–] CluckN@lemmy.world 19 points 2 days ago (1 children)

First they came for the Chokers , And I did not speak out Because I like to breath

Then they came for the Foot fanatics , And I did not speak out Because I was not into feet

Then they came for the thigh highs , And I did not speak out Because I was not into socks

Then they came for the Brazilian cake farts , And there was no one left To speak out for me

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 4 points 2 days ago

Like, I get it, but this but unironically. The UK has already put a bathroom ban out for trans folks. How long before they ban trans porn because it's considered harmful? How long before they start to label other trans things as adult and ban those too?

[–] indomara@lemmy.world 13 points 2 days ago

An article about this was posted 6 months ago and I looked into it: https://lemmy.world/comment/16311493

I wrote:

This article is feeling kind of clickbaitish, as the sources are ... odd.

However, restricting blood flow to the brain can also have serious health implications.

While not all pressure on the neck will be fatal, research shows even relatively low pressure can cause death by strangulation.

The first source is a medical journal describing the physiology of the arteries in the neck, and does not seem to include anything about restricting blood flow (never mind temporarily) having serious health consequences.

The second source is a book from 1991 about autoerotic asphyxiation with the quote:

autoerotic asphyxia denotes death resulting from failure of a release mechanism of the device, apparatus or prop designed to attain cerebral hypoxia for heightened arousal.

Which is ... not the same as doing this with someone, and doesn't address the risks of a partner who releases pressure immediately after a loss of consciousness.

The issues around consent are troubling indeed, consent should always be paramount.

I also found it amusing that the beginning of the article said

Although rare, strangulation is the leading cause of death in consensual BDSM play.

Which links to a study that found a total of 16 cases that included strangulation between 1982 and 2020. Rare indeed.

My husband and I dabble in breath play, so I was curious and read a few studies myself. It seems that every case study I could find included atypical circumstances. Things like accidental hanging, or asphyxiation due to bags etc being over the head.

This paper includes a 50 year review of cases for anyone interested. https://benthamopen.com/contents/pdf/TOFORSJ/TOFORSJ-1-1.pdf

It is also worth noting that loss of consciousness due to cutting off blood flow to the brain (cerebral hypoxia) is not dissimilar to the hypoxia experienced by pilots, who even train with repeated exposure to hypoxia in hyperbaric chambers.

I would be curious to know if there were any studies of the long term effects of this on pilots. (My dive into the rabbit hole is done for the day, lol.)

[–] cley_faye@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago

porn normalized chocking

I'm not sold on the "porn normalized XYZ", or non porn either. There's plenty of content of all kinds showing all kind of things that would be deemed dangerous, wrong, lethal, immoral, cruel, etc. but somehow, it's only porn and kinks we're talking about. If the prevalence of something in easily accessible media was a thing, I'd have a thing or two to tell about cops choking/gasing/beating up people laying on the ground.

I'm more concerned by the amount of people that consider fictional content to be guidelines for how they actually live their life. It seems that there's enough of them to warrant censoring weird shit, but as long as this side of the issue is not addressed, this will not stop.

When I was younger (yes… classic one) a lot of people were worried that younger generation could not distinguish fiction from reality. And we didn't even have realistic fiction, too. Now that we do, it seems that too many people consider "normalisation" through any media the natural course of things. Kinda like video game making people violent… only when it is convenient.

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[–] 30p87@feddit.org 32 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Ah yes, "the government".

[–] Humanius@lemmy.world 10 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It's a BBC article, so it stands to reason that this is about the UK government.

[–] absentbird@lemmy.world 10 points 2 days ago

Wait, that's not a porn site?

[–] hydrashok@sh.itjust.works 44 points 3 days ago (2 children)

“We’ve found a lot of videos online, and we’re going to keep watching until you stop making them!”

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[–] thelivefive@startrek.website 37 points 3 days ago (4 children)

Penetration itself can be viewed as an act of violence and the government should probably put everyone who has thought about it on a surveillance list.

[–] frank@sopuli.xyz 7 points 2 days ago

Surveil everyone in the country? already done ✅

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[–] supamanc@lemmy.world 24 points 3 days ago

I think everyone is missing the point that this is effectively a shodow ban on porn. The Gov knows that sites aren't going to filter specific content for specific regions, it's cheaper and safer to simply stop serving those regions. Yes, a VPN will get around that, but VPNs are probably next on the agenda.

[–] TrojanRoomCoffeePot@lemmy.world 25 points 3 days ago (32 children)

I can't help but feeling as though the exact same pearl clutching wieners are behind this as the growing attempts at overall porn ban, as though restriction of access to the content will somehow cut the legs out from under the already widespread (albeit uncommon) practice.

To wit, people aren't choking each other during sex or risking David Carradine'ing themselves while wanking because of some shit-production porn, they're doing it because it's enjoyable to them (choker and choke-ee). I'm not going to kinkshame except to say that there's no method of getting a head-rush that I'd personally recommend, but based on what sex-choke enjoyers that I know have said, it makes them cum extra-hard. So... there's that, the mega-cums.

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[–] Gates9@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Ah….so this is why confused dog Tucker expressed his moral outrage at this activity, completely unprompted, to known Nazi Nick Fuentes who is on the record very recently and repeatedly over the years of his wasted youth as a hate mongering whelp and a self-loathing failson, stating that women should have all of their legal and human rights taken away.

[–] nosuchanon@lemmy.world 14 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I think the government should stay out of peoples pants. The issue isn’t the pornography, it’s that children are allowed on the Internet whether there is pornography. More of a parenting and society issue than it is a pornography issue.

I think the larger issue is the fact that kids are given cell phones and laptops and unrestricted access to the Internet at a young age. The problem isn’t what’s on the Internet it’s that you don’t want kids to have access to it. There are other more effective ways at dealing with the problem rather than censorship for everyone.

Maybe a better way to handle these issues is giving minors only access to online libraries and curated educational content until they are 18 or considered an adult. Then you can make your social media profiles and access adult content.

[–] fireweed@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

In this thread: a lot of chocking

[–] Dijon@sh.itjust.works 10 points 2 days ago

Chock full of it!

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