> Before the widespread adoption of pornography, this rate was near 0%

Bullshit. Men and women have been dying of autoerotic asphyxiation long before the internet. And we only hear about the ones that fuck up badly enough to make the news.

I'm puzzled by this phenomenon myself, but there is apparently a significant minority of women who enjoy getting choked in bed:

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13178-025-01247-9

This doesn't excuse people who choke without consent, but there's something going on here waaaay more complex than "see it in porn, do it". Humans are weird.

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gjsman-1000 4 hours ago | parent [-]

Nobody is saying that nobody did this before. We are saying now that it is a health crisis, objectively.

You're the guy saying that 110 MPH speed limits can't be responsible for crashes because people also died at 20 MPH.

	▲	stickfigure 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		You did in fact just say that nobody did it before - or very strongly implied it based on how sloppy you want to be with the phrase "near 0%". Stop pretending you know what that number is.