Quote:Porn featuring strangulation or suffocation – often referred to as “choking” – is due to be criminalised, with a legal requirement placed on tech platforms to prevent UK users from seeing such material.

Possessing or publishing porn featuring choking will become a criminal offence under amendments to the Crime and Policing bill tabled in parliament on Monday.

In a separate amendment, victims of intimate image abuse will also have longer to come forward, with the time limit to prosecute extended from six months to three years.

The government said this would help break down unnecessary barriers victims face when reporting a crime, “improving access to justice for those who need it the most”.

The choking ban comes after a recommendation from a government review into pornography which found it has contributed to establishing strangulation as a “sexual norm”.

Quote:They said Rubin and Powers spent more than $1 million recruiting women to participate in paid sex acts involving bondage and submission, including victims who had previously been sexually abused, were financially desperate or who suffered from addiction. Once they were in New York, the women were encouraged to use drugs or alcohol to prepare for their sexual encounters, and they sometimes engaged in conduct beyond the scope of their consent, prosecutors said.

During the encounters, women suffered significant pain, including bruises and psychological trauma, and sometimes required medical treatment, according to prosecutors.

Quote:Now that Lucy has been in a steady relationship for a year, she finds herself looking back at previous sexual encounters through a new lens. The slaps to her face. Hands round her neck. The multiple late-night messages from one partner – nine years older and, in her words, “a Tinder situation”: “Can I come over and rape you?”

Personal_Poet5720 So last night I was on the phone with the guy I was seeing. I brought up sex and told him that I don’t like BDSM acts. I don’t like choking, spitting, slapping , etc. He said he wasn’t into rough stuff either. He then asked me what I’m into and I told him honestly I’m very vanilla which probably sounds boring………he then asked me the thought provoking question “Wait why is it boring”…. And it took me a few minutes to answer.

Upon realization, I thought that because of pornography people especially women have been conditioned to think vanilla sex or sex that doesn’t involve choking or violence is boring…..when vanilla sex can be just as fun depending on the parties. So actually no vanilla sex is not boring. It can be quite delicious and luxurious haha!