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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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[–] fireweed@lemmy.world 3 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (1 children)

In this thread: a lot of chocking

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[–] etherphon@lemmy.world 2 points 33 minutes ago* (last edited 30 minutes ago)

I suppose I would file this one under massive sex education failure, if youths are having to learn about sex from porn there's already a problem.

[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 1 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

While im not cool with making playacting illegal I would be very happy for it to not be so fucking common in the vids. Can we stop with the little slaps to. I think the problem with a lot of kinks that don't completely drive the person away. Am I still gonna watch the porn. Well yeah, probably, but I would prefer it without it. Whats funny is seeing the same porn videos with differen titles. various incest scenarios and then something else.

[–] abbotsbury@lemmy.world -1 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Am I still gonna watch the porn. Well yeah, probably

You're the problem then, stop giving those videos views.

[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 0 points 1 hour ago

Well yeah. I said the play acting was not enough to turn people away. Well especially since you don't know till liek half way through.

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 1 points 53 minutes ago

I've seen this story everywhere but can't ever find the actual law.

[–] Aneb@lemmy.world -1 points 2 hours ago

Their have been a lock down on a lot of explicit content online but no one thought it was worth fighting for them, know they're trying to ban videos depicting choking. Idk seems like karma

[–] Doomsider@lemmy.world -3 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

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/

[–] duckythescientist@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

That paper isn't quite as compelling as I'd hoped it would be for you 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).

[–] Doomsider@lemmy.world 0 points 5 hours ago

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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