• Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      Oh is it ever. Both my partner and myself love it… but we’re safe about it. Only blood chokes, no windpipe. Only medium/gentle, and never for extended periods of time.

      It takes minutes to actually choke someone to death. You’re not going to die if you’re choked for ten seconds.

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      Nope.

      Strangulation during sex carries a variety of risks. These range from effects such as bruising and vomiting to brain injury and death.

      Although rare, strangulation is the leading cause of death in consensual BDSM play.

      There’s no evidence there is any safe way to undertake strangulation. Notably, strangulation can cause injury without leaving any marks and sometimes negative consequences don’t develop until well after the choking episode.

      In a new study, we’ve found part of the reason why strangulation during sex is so common may be because many people mistakenly believe that, while risky, it can be made safe through moderating pressure and appropriate communication.

      But stopping blood flow to the brain can take less pressure than opening a can of soft drink. And research shows strangulation can result in serious harms even when it’s consensual.

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        That quote doesn’t say anything other than “it’s not safe” and “it can take less pressure than opening a can of soft drink”

        It honestly reads like one of those fake websites that only exist to game SEO and sell ad space that you come across searching something like “Severence season 3 release date.” It repeats itself over and over without actually saying anything of substance.

      • southsamurai@sh.itjust.works
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        The problem with that is the author’s unawareness of risk aware kink.

        If someone is doing breath play, or applying blood restriction during their play, they know damn good and well it’s never fully safe.

        The problem comes in with noobs and idiots thinking that you can bypass serious effort at learning how to minimize risk with reading some random internet article on a bot written blog.

        There are absolutely ways to make the risk so minimum that it has to be some kind of unknown factor driving the risk upwards and not being accounted for to cause injury or death. But those things do happen. It’s a real and unavoidable possibility.

        There’s also difference between strangulation and proper breath play, but that’s another example of a writer not doing due diligence in terminology