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The Rise Of Choking In Teenage Sex
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The Rise Of Choking In Teenage Sex

What is going on here, and does it "say" anything to us?

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Ted Bauer
Oct 11, 2024
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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…

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