“I’ll Choke Ya, But I Ain’t No Killer Baby”
Since 2018, there’s been a renaissance of information around this idea that choking — once among the greatest of sexual taboos, or something you did only with a long-term partner after many discussions — is now so commonplace, or desired, that young men are just going for it on a first sexual encounter, with no discourse involved. Feels pretty troubling. A lot of this initial research came from the United Kingdom, but now some of it is getting picked up in major American outlets:
Here is just the second paragraph of the above article:
For the past four years, Dr. Herbenick has been tracking the rapid rise of “rough sex” among college students, particularly sexual strangulation, or what is colloquially referred to as choking. Nearly two-thirds of women in her most recent campus-representative survey of 5,000…
