Choking during sex has become mainstream among under-35s. How did we get here?
The risks associated with sexual strangulation include death, long-term changes in the brain, miscarriage and thyroid injuries. Illustration: Clemens Habicht/The Guardian
The risks associated with sexual strangulation include the obvious: death. Women have died in this way. But there are numerous other risks, including long-termthat can occur whether or not the person being choked remains conscious, as well as miscarriage, thyroid injuries and short-term impacts like vomiting and loss of bowel control.
A majority of those surveyed had seen choking depicted in porn, although this included more men than women . A third had also seen choking represented on social media. This includes memes, such as the “Sarah*, a 34-year-old single woman who works in the creative industries and often chokes her male sexual partners, doesn’t think porn has influenced her.
Sexual choking is now so common that many young people don’t think it even requires consent. That’s a problem | Chanel Contos“I also know that she enjoys the euphoria around it,” he says. 81.7% of more than 4,200 college students surveyed who had practised sexual strangulation reported experiencing pleasurable sensations and euphoria – which can be caused by a lack of oxygen to the brain – in response to being choked.
Professor Heather Douglas, a domestic violence expert from the University of Melbourne School of Law, who co-authored the Australian prevalence study, points tothat discovered neurological changes among women who had experienced sexual strangulation, finding “preliminary associations with altered working memory function and worse mental health”.Consent is another problem.
Alice Birbara, a 30-year-old actor from New South Wales, had experienced nonconsensual sexual strangulation with a man she met on a dating app. The man asked Alice via message if she was interested in choking, to which she responded that she was – as long as it was practised safely and with consent. A couple of days later they had sex, during which he began choking her “out of nowhere”.“I just felt the full force of his whole body weight on me,” she says.
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