What young women are saying about sexual strangulation

In less than a decade, sexual strangulation – often referred to as 'choking' – has gone from very marginal to a normalised sexual practice among young people. But who is doing it to whom?

There are some very strong patterns in how sexual strangulation is being experienced: it's mostly done by boys and young men to girls, young women and sexual and gender minorities.

Here's some of what the young women we've interviewed told us about sexual strangulation.

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