Sexual choking, also known as erotic asphyxiation, has grown in popularity among young adults and teens in the U.S., and now, appears to be gaining traction overseas, including in Australia. While ...

In June 2025, the artist Chris Brown went viral for a photograph taken during a "meet and greet" with a fan, in which he appeared to have his hands around her throat as she sat on his lap. This ...

In recent years, choking during sex has become much more common, especially among younger adults in the United States. One nationally representative study found that: 31.9 percent of women ages 18-24 ...

Experts cautioned that choking is a dangerous sexual act that can result in stroke, convulsions, and even paralysis, even though pornography has successfully made it a “sexual norm” and a “safe” ...

But this rose to over a third of younger people aged 16 to 35. In 2020, I was teaching a postgraduate module on sexuality, gender and crime. In one of the classes about unconventional sexual ...