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.
This is in direct response to some recent studies that claimed that chocking is the second most common cause of stroke in women under 40. Other studied found that there is no safe amount of oxygen deprivation, any chocking leads to brain damage. Other risks of choking are difficulty swallowing, incontinence, seizures, memory problems, depression, anxiety and miscarriage.
What happened is that porn normalized chocking. It used to be limited to the “hard core” types of porn but now it’s mainstream and kids that grew up watching it think it’s just normal part of sex. Most women asked about it say that they don’t enjoy it but do it “for their partner’s pleasure”.
So yeah, the government treats it as a public health issue and bans it.
I’m not a scientists, I didn’t review all those studies and frankly I don’t care one way of the other. Just wanted to give people some context.
You can read more about it here: https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2025/jul/07/no-safe-way-risks-of-choking-during-sex
I think everyone is missing the point that this is effectively a shodow ban on porn. The Gov knows that sites aren’t going to filter specific content for specific regions, it’s cheaper and safer to simply stop serving those regions. Yes, a VPN will get around that, but VPNs are probably next on the agenda.
Ah yes, “the government”.
I think the government should stay out of peoples pants. The issue isn’t the pornography, it’s that children are allowed on the Internet whether there is pornography. More of a parenting and society issue than it is a pornography issue.
I think the larger issue is the fact that kids are given cell phones and laptops and unrestricted access to the Internet at a young age. The problem isn’t what’s on the Internet it’s that you don’t want kids to have access to it. There are other more effective ways at dealing with the problem rather than censorship for everyone.
Maybe a better way to handle these issues is giving minors only access to online libraries and curated educational content until they are 18 or considered an adult. Then you can make your social media profiles and access adult content.
Might be a good idea to say which government when you’re posting to world news?
What’s next? BDSM?
Only porn allowed will be missionary position?
Only porn allowed will be missionary position?
No. I think it’s a step by step approach, that will go further than that. After only missionary, they’ll make the actors get married before having any sex, all under the blankets and as clothed as possible, no condom or pulling out allowed either, and at the end of the scene it has to show the beautiful baby born nine months after. No gay porn, of course, or trans, interracial, more than to people (man™️ and woman™️)… sex is for procreation! How you dare enjoying it, you sinner!
Penetration itself can be viewed as an act of violence and the government should probably put everyone who has thought about it on a surveillance list.
Search: How to do the Heimlich maneuver? YouTube: sorry this video has been deleted for depicting scenes of people choking.
I can’t help but feeling as though the exact same pearl clutching wieners are behind this as the growing attempts at overall porn ban, as though restriction of access to the content will somehow cut the legs out from under the already widespread (albeit uncommon) practice.
To wit, people aren’t choking each other during sex or risking David Carradine’ing themselves while wanking because of some shit-production porn, they’re doing it because it’s enjoyable to them (choker and choke-ee). I’m not going to kinkshame except to say that there’s no method of getting a head-rush that I’d personally recommend, but based on what sex-choke enjoyers that I know have said, it makes them cum extra-hard. So… there’s that, the mega-cums.
I mean online porn is a problem, especially for youths. When many of us were young it didn’t exist but it hit us as young adults. With 25 you might be a bit more sure about your sexuality or maybe you even have experiences. However, you are definitely more certain on who you are as a person. 13 year old being confronted with modern porn and the image it delivers breaks my heart a little bit to be honest. Young people having no idea what sex is about, watching violent and misogynistic porn is very dangerous for our society in general.
Of course I know censorship can’t be the answer and UK can fuck itself with its age controls, but idk, I feel like we gotta do something about this.
Choking is for sure not the line we should draw, just to make that clear. Next thing is only missionary position, fuck your christian values.
Jfc more conservative pearl clutching censorship laws in supposedly developed countries? What a time to be alive.
I’m a fairly progressive liberal, and I don’t think this is an entirely bad idea as it can be a dangerous practice. It’s so prevalent in porn (especially the free stuff those new to sex are likely to start with) that it makes it seem an almost routine part of sexual activity. The more aggressive young people sometimes will then pressure their partners to try it without really understanding the limits, potentially leading to deadly results.
I honestly don’t know if this happens much - if at all - so I admit I may indeed be “pearl clutching,” and am open to being proven wrong. As things stand, however, I don’t see how allowing the act to be so frequently portrayed can be seen as a net positive.
At the same time, it seems to be overstepping a bit to be classifying it as equal in severity as CSAM and terroristic content. People presumably aren’t being choked to death in the video.
Well, where are all those deaths caused by choking during sex because of porn? I would bet that many more visits to er are caused by trying to emulate the sex in the bath tube while having a couple wine glasses around scenes so typical in ‘romantic’ movies/shows, than by all the kinks seen in porn together.
Parents should, and I’m aware many do, tell their children that tv, movies, porn… are meant to entertain, not teach, and they are very different from how real life things work.
You can read about the deaths in the Wikipedia article on the topic. Just because there are other mishaps during sex that also lead to injuries and/or death, that doesn’t invalidate concerns over this method as it even more directly can be shown to be problematic than accidents occurring due to other causes. Never mind the other possible life-altering outcomes such as brain damage.
We all know that the success rate of parents telling their teens anything can be wildly unpredictable. Often, it can even be a motivator to try to do the exact opposite of what their parents recommend. As such, that’s not really a reliable method of addressing the issue.
That article only cites deaths due to autoerotic asphyxiation, which I haven’t seen or heard portrayed in porn, and says that are mostly men, which contradicts the stated objective of preventing harm to women. Have you even read the source you linked or the article, mate?
Then don’t look it up. My partner likes to be seriously choked during sex…what you gonna arrest me for making my partner cum?
I’ve NEVER “looked it up,” but it seems to be an almost mandatory part of most videos produced anymore - along with the usual several positions that must be assumed, and ending virtually every video in a facial. They all look the same.
Well okay, did the last time I bothered looking for porn videos regularly. It’s been quite a while since I just couldn’t seem to avoid shit like that. Text stories are my porn anymore.
I don’t GAF what you & your partner prefer to do in your private time. Conflating that with porn is both disingenuous, and possibly telling of how highly you think of yourself.
I mentioned what my partner and I do because at what point do these ridiculous laws stop? Right now, it’s just porn, but then it’s what you do in the privacy of your bedroom.
Choking has not been a big thing in porn. There’s a shit ton of porn so of course there’s a lot of choking porn, doesn’t mean it’s the main thing.
And positions now? What are you a nun? Does doggy bother you? Does Cowgirl? And highly of myself? Nah, I’ve been having a healthy sex life for 15 yrs…I’m just confident in my abilities.
You’re the one coming off highly of themselves. Like we should care that you get bothered by sex between 2 or more consenting adults.
Like, where do folks like you get this entitlement? That you can tell the rest of us what to do? Leave us alone. Leave others alone. Maybe worry about the pastors and government officials raping kids?
High horse riding.
“We’ve found a lot of videos online, and we’re going to keep watching until you stop making them!”
Train ai!
It’s a good start…
“To what,” he asked knowingly after seeing the exact types of crappy comments one would expect from a proudly self-proclaimed “Christian conservative” in their history.
I don’t care for that choking crap, either, and I’m not against this ban as it seems to me the near-constant presence of it in porn normalizes it to far too many and that’s potentially quite dangerous. However, when you say something like that, and your comment history includes you proudly proclaiming that you’re a “Christian conservative”… Well, I can only imagine where your control freak tendencies are likely to take things, and that’s extremely likely to be entirely too far.
To banning all pornography…MRI imaging has revealed that porn addiction leads to changes in the brain, citing a direct correlation between more time spent consuming porn and a reduction in grey matter. [3] Critics of these findings have raised concerns about whether pre-existing conditions that contribute to grey matter volume loss have been properly accounted for. While it is true that scientific research needs to account for the whole picture, there is ample evidence that porn addiction in particular, negatively impacts the brain…just the tip of the iceberg…
If you’re going to just copy paste some out of context slop you could at least just provide a link (he says, knowing that probably came right out of a “write me a paragraph proving that porn is bad” ChatGPT session).
Or are you going to say that “[3]” citation notation in there was totally intentional?
Maybe we should ban anything with a correlative (but not necessarily causative) link to decreased “grey matter” though; let’s start with social media. You’d clearly never use that, right?
Clearly…it’s easier to copy paste then to write it all out…but that is just the tip of the iceberg on the poision of porn on society…but the good thing for you is degens gonna be degens I guess…but I will pray for you…oh and just because it’s copy paste don’t make it untrue…am I Write or am I RIGHT natalia…
You might want to ask ChatGPT to define “cherry picking” for you.
Also “how to ethically cite sources in public discourse”.
Yea I liked that song they had Zoot Suite Riot…Cherry Poppin Daddies…throw back a bottle of beer…fool
Ew.
What an ass. It’s sad how you get your jollies being a sanctimonious troll (read my profile before you comment about my username) - all the while knowing how it’ll be received, but just can’t resist doing this because you’re positively addicted to the extremely brief dopamine hit from telling yourself that you’re so morally superior to all those dumping on your shitty takes. You’re so transparent when you refuse to even try backing up your statements (not that you likely actually could with any real validity).
Good luck to you, as I’m done feeding your pathetic addiction. Consider yourself blocked.
Whatever porn you watch should be banned?
They don’t watch porn. They watch “disgusting filth,” and lots of it - you know… “for research purposes.”
They don’t watch porn, they read erotic furry fiction. Maybe some werewolfs.
1st world people are pussies… Does that mean we can ban them now? They pay the devils and then protest them. Like the way these countries make terrorists and then make funds off of killing them. It’s not beyond humans to make a legal business off these things.
Fr though it’s the same essential problem for every subtopic… Drugs, sex ,business… Everything… They have this idea good and bad can be boiled down into simplified acts regardless of intention and emotion… Its such a childish thoughtless ideology. And it’s not just Republicans, Democrats, labour or liberal, do they same thing when they jump on the sjw bandwagon.
Leading modern nations are fucked.
It doesn’t even seem like law and order, the whole modern world feels like a crime and slave trade racket.
Edited for @theunknownmuncher@lemmy.world
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.
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.
Ironic, the person condemning America automatically assumes every article is about America… how American of you.
Edit: they’ve edited their comment to swap out “America” for “1st world”, “leading mordern nations”, and “the whole modern world” now. Lol I feel like that equivalency is even more ironic
The point still stands, lol. Thanks for the clarification though.
I think this is talking about the UK, not the US.
