| ▲ | gjsman-1000 3 days ago |
| Because according to UK research, just doing it once, in a supposedly safe way, causes biomarkers indicating brain damage in the blood. It can also apparently cause strokes decades afterwards. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40062485/ https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2025/jul/07/no-safe... “There’s no safe way to do it, no safe quantity of blood or oxygen you can cut off from her brain for fun,” says Jane Meyrick, a chartered health psychologist who leads work on sexual health at the University of the West of England. She describes being at a sexual health conference last year where data was presented on sexual strangulation – the prevalence and harms. “Usually, at those conferences, people will be talking about the extremes of what everyone is getting up to in a very sex-positive way,” she says. “When this was presented, you could feel the tension, the internal conflict, in the room, with professionals being unable to reconcile the gap between what they were hearing and their usual sex-positivity.” |
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| ▲ | doublerabbit 3 days ago | parent | next [-] |
| Reminds me of old net, Maddox. How to kill yourself like a man. https://maddox.xmission.com/c.cgi?u=manly_suicide"%3B>... It's from 2004 and dark humor. |
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| ▲ | mrguyorama 3 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Well shit, that's really unfortunate for a lot of people. ...but sexytime "choking" has an entire range of intensity that is more about intimacy and physical touch and doesn't restrict airflow or blood flow at all. If a 14 year old watches porn and decides to copy what they see, that is a failure of sex education. Every child needs to be taught fairly graphic and frank realities of sex, sexuality, and sexual activity. For some reason, this is basically only difficult in parts of the US. |
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| ▲ | gjsman-1000 3 days ago | parent | next [-] | | Did you miss the part about how this affecting the UK despite educational warnings? This is hardly US-exclusive, and education is not solving the problem. > If a 14 year old watches porn This is not 14 year olds either, these are teenagers and fully grown consenting adults, notably not in the US. "A survey by the Institute for Addressing Strangulation, established with Home Office funding in 2022, after strangulation became a standalone offence, found over a third of 16 to 34-year-olds had experienced this." The reality is that people are influenced by pornography, despite education, despite warnings, despite common sense, despite age, despite region, and it is killing people. Even sex-positive educators are stuck in cognitive dissonance on this one. | |
| ▲ | coldtea 2 days ago | parent | prev [-] | | >If a 14 year old watches porn and decides to copy what they see, that is a failure of sex education Sex education is just another school class that in goes one ear, out goes another. The kids will follow what they see (including in porn), what the culture has normalized, not what some teacher tells them in class... So, "porn normalizes X, but it's the duty of sex-education to prevent kids copying it" is a lousy and losing approach. |
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| ▲ | password4321 3 days ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Dang someone had that response locked and loaded, 2 minutes later... in any case I did not expect this entire sub-thread under a discussion on decentralized web! |
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| ▲ | gjsman-1000 3 days ago | parent [-] | | If you’re going to insinuate on Hacker News, that pornography is inspiring behaviors that are literally killing people… you need to bring receipts. Being in denial of harm is the favorite pastime here, but that's just the first stage of grief. Case in point, the sex-positive educators in the UK... forced to say that certain bedroom behaviors actually are too dangerous to participate in. Even that, yes, we will control what you do in the bedroom, with the force of law, and even restrict depicting that act regardless of consent, with the force of law. Extremely ironic that sex-positive educators are now forced to say what you can do in the bedroom, after they said "who are you to tell consenting adults what they can do" for decades. > This is the first comment I've seen from you that leverages the UK's authority on anything related to online safety. Edit for a (now deleted) reply: This has nothing to do with the UK; studies objectively say this activity is more dangerous than waterboarding. If that is true, action is objectively necessary, including against depictions. | | |
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