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.



Do politicians of liberal democracies not understand that constructive expression (eg, an education campaign), not law, is the way a liberal democracy combats misguided expression?
These authoritarians need to cut to the chase with their excuses & ban breeding. You know how dangerous childbirth is? Compound that with the consequences of birth: everyone born dies. Altogether, a terribly dangerous idea.
Let this be the last human generation.