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.

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.

>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.