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.

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    7 hours ago

    While I don’t disagree with you, I believe this is in the UK, so I’m not quite connecting the dots on the American tie in.

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      7 hours ago

      It’s pretty much the same in any 1st world country. There’s not a lot of people running the globe.

      People think that’s outlandish but look at Epstein’s reach and he was basically a common bitch in the game.