PASTOR, ARE YOU STILL CHOKING OUT YOUR WIFE AND YOUR SIDEPIECE WHILE HAVING SEX?

pictured: Health experts warn there is no way to strangle someone without risk. Photograph: RunPhoto/Getty Images

PASTOR, ARE YOU STILL CHOKING OUT YOUR WIFE AND YOUR SIDEPIECE WHILE HAVING SEX? WELL, I HAVE SOME BAD NEWS FOR YOU. NOW YOUR ADULT DAUGHTERS ARE BEING CHOKED OUT BY YOUNG MEN, AND YOUR SONS ARE CHOKING OUT YOUNG WOMEN LIKE NEVER BEFORE. SOME YOUNG WOMEN ARE DYING OR EXPERIENCING PERMANENT BRAIN DAMAGE FROM THIS PRACTICE BECAUSE MEN OF TODAY ARE DEMON-POSSESSED AND WOKE. DON’T GET MAD AT ME FOR TELLING YOU ABOUT WHAT’S GOING ON. I AM JUST THE MAILMAN. YOU ARE THE ONE WHO IS STILL CHOKING OUT YOUR WIFE AND YOUR SIDEPIECE.

Anthony* has been in a relationship for 10 years and chokes his partner during sex about one in every 10 times. The 29-year-old, who works in the health and fitness industry, noticed she liked to be touched around her neck, which over time led to experimenting with more pressure and “choking”.

“It was like, ‘Oh, OK, like, this is a nice thing,” he says. “She likes this. And it’s kind of getting me in the mood as well.’”

Erotic asphyxiation is nothing new. Mention the term to anyone over the age of 30 and they’re likely to bring up Michael Hutchence’s 1997 death (which was ultimately determined to be a suicide) or Tim Winton’s 2008 novel Breath, which depicts a teenage boy getting drawn into sexual asphyxiation with an older friend’s wife. Various types of “breath play”, as it’s often referred to in BDSM communities, have been practised since at least the 1700s – it even appears in the Marquis de Sade’s 1791 novel Justine.

Risk of serious injury as strangling during sex becomes normalised among young Australians
But historically representations of sexual strangulation have typically involved doing it to oneself, and erotic asphyxiation has been an uncommon act even in the BDSM communities with which it’s commonly associated.

In July researchers from Melbourne and Queensland universities published a study on the prevalence of sexual strangulation among 18- to 35-year-olds in Australia and found that over half of the more than 4,700 surveyed had choked or been choked by a sexual partner. Among young people, sexual choking has become mainstream.

The risks associated with sexual strangulation include the obvious: death. Women have died in this way. But there are numerous other risks, including long-term changes in the brain that can occur whether or not the person being choked remains conscious, as well as miscarriage, thyroid injuries and short-term impacts including vomiting and loss of bowel control.

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