A teenage girl died in Sydney earlier this year after allegedly being strangled during consensual sex.
This tragedy has brought into sharp focus the need to address the rapid, recent rise in sexual strangulation – and the pornography, social media and other influences that have contributed to its normalisation.
Breathless campaign co-founders Maree Crabbe and David Corlett wrote about these issues in the Sydney Morning Herald.
You can read the full article here.
We started the Breathless campaign to address the rise and prevalence of sexual strangulation. It’s time to end the normalisation of this dangerous cultural norm and to tackle the influences that have contributed to its infiltration into young people’s sexual scripts.
