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Choking during sex: many young people mistakenly believe it can be done safely, our study shows. (theconversation.com)

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[+] [email protected] -15 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (4 children)

Nope.

Strangulation during sex carries a variety of risks. These range from effects such as bruising and vomiting to brain injury and death.

Although rare, strangulation is the leading cause of death in consensual BDSM play.

There’s no evidence there is any safe way to undertake strangulation. Notably, strangulation can cause injury without leaving any marks and sometimes negative consequences don’t develop until well after the choking episode.

In a new study, we’ve found part of the reason why strangulation during sex is so common may be because many people mistakenly believe that, while risky, it can be made safe through moderating pressure and appropriate communication.

But stopping blood flow to the brain can take less pressure than opening a can of soft drink. And research shows strangulation can result in serious harms even when it’s consensual.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 18 minutes ago

The problem with that is the author's unawareness of risk aware kink.

If someone is doing breath play, or applying blood restriction during their play, they know damn good and well it's never fully safe.

The problem comes in with noobs and idiots thinking that you can bypass serious effort at learning how to minimize risk with reading some random internet article on a bot written blog.

There are absolutely ways to make the risk so minimum that it has to be some kind of unknown factor driving the risk upwards and not being accounted for to cause injury or death. But those things do happen. It's a real and unavoidable possibility.

There's also difference between strangulation and proper breath play, but that's another example of a writer not doing due diligence in terminology

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 hours ago

How does what you wrote prove it isn't fun when you're horny?

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 hours ago

That doesn't counter the claim you replied to in any way.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 hours ago

idHt choking is good