More than two in five sexually active under-18s in the UK have either been strangled or strangled someone during sex, research has found, despite the serious dangers of the practice.
Are you kidding me? What sort of person is making these wild claims!?
“Choking”, as it is commonly known, has become normalised in young people’s sexual habits, the study by the Institute for Addressing Strangulation (Ifas) showed, with 43% of sexually active 16- and 17-year-olds having experienced it.
Ah. Now the penny drops!
More than half of people under the age of 35 have experienced it, with nearly a third wrongly believing there are safe ways to strangle someone.
That's pretty believable, at least, the number of dimwits in society is clearly increasing exponentially....
In recent years, “choking” has become part of a dangerous drift towards increased violence in mainstream pornography, which was cited as the biggest source of information about the practice among the respondents.
Clare McGlynn, a professor of law at Durham University and the author of Exposed: The Rise of Extreme Porn and How We Fight Back, said strangulation in pornography was a recent phenomenon. “Depictions of strangulation and suffocation are brutal and graphic, often involving belts tied around necks, plastic bags over women’s heads, and two hands gripping the neck.” She called for a national campaign to raise awareness of the real risks and harms of the practice, which could occur even when there was no visible injury.
What she's calling for is a national campaign to raaise awareness of her book and her availability for talk shows...
6 comments:
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John Tee
Ah, the famous "studies" by people who want to sell their book. The only fact you can obtain from a survey, especially one where young people are involved, is that the question was answered. Not necessarily answered truthfully, just answered. Remember the furore over video nasties in the mid 80's, where young people were given a list of these films, and asked which they had had access to, either directly, or through their parents owning them? The published result was horrifying, showing that the youth of the country was being destroyed by this filth, until it was revealed that almost half of the films listed, which the kiddiwinkies claimed to have seen, did not exist. The titles were made up.
It may well be that the results of this recent study are flawed through young people wanting to appear more sexually adventurous than they really are. "Choking?" , "My (fictional) girlfriend/boyfriend and I do it all the time. "
Mranwhile, a study by the Institute of Unfinished Research has shown that "6 out of 10 people".
Penseivat
The question is whether the concerns are real or whether they are confected. Although there have been a few cases reported we don't find strangled corpses in the street every day, so I'm going with confected.
Spot on!
That classic TV episode about the dangers of a totally made up new drug come to mind too...
Ah, but perhaps they are just cunningly well hidden?
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