Possession and publication of such material will be a criminal offence, under amendments to the Crime and Policing Bill.

Online pornography showing strangulation or suffocation is to be made illegal, as part of government plans to tackle violence against women and girls.

It follows a review which found depictions of choking were “rife” on mainstream porn sites and had helped normalise the act among young people.

Both the possession and publication of such material will be a criminal offence, under amendments to the Crime and Policing Bill currently going through Parliament.

  • frongt@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    2 days ago

    Choking as a sex act does not necessarily involve blood or oxygen deprivation. For most people it’s just a firm hand on their throat.

    • Doomsider@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 days ago

      There is no safe way to constrict breathing. What you saying is not choking or strangulation.

              • frongt@lemmy.zipEnglish
                11·
                2 days ago

                Yeah that’s my point, the evidence indicates it wasn’t an accidental death from an extreme sex act, it was a wholly intentional murder

                • Doomsider@lemmy.worldEnglish
                  11·
                  2 days ago

                  Dude, do you really need me to prove that people are accidently choked to death during sex acts around the world on a daily basis? I can’t even with you right now.

                  “Strangulation – fatal and non-fatal – “squeezing”, “neck compression” or, as some call, it “breath-play” – is highly gendered. On average, one woman in the UK is strangled to death by her partner every two weeks”

                  Where are all the men deaths from choking due to sex!?

                  Your inability to see what is going on is a major failing on your part. That is okay, because you didn’t know better until now.

                  Edit: Death does not even account for brain damage, PTSD, and the epidemic of women being choked against their will.

                  • frongt@lemmy.zipEnglish
                    11·
                    2 days ago

                    Again, that’s still my point, you’re not talking about sex acts, you’re talking about abuse and murder that they’re trying to excuse