Mon Mar 20, 2023 – 3:09 pm EDT
(LifeSiteNews)— Dame Rachel de Souza is the Children’s Commissioner of England. She is also one of many voices warning that pornography, which is prevalent among children, is spurring a grotesque and potentially deadly trend: choking during sex.
“I will never forget the girl who told me about her first kiss with her boyfriend, aged 12, who strangled her,” de Souza said. “He had seen it in pornography and thought it normal.” He wasn’t wrong. A new report indicates that “nearly half of all girls aged 16 to 21 say they’ve had a partner expect sex to involve physical aggression such as slapping and choking.”
As porn becomes the primary source of sex education for nearly all young people, sexual assault is going from a fringe behavior to something normalized and expected. In 2019, a report in The Atlantic that warned of a sharp rise in the practice of choking during sexual acts (with almost a quarter of adult American women reporting that they felt fear during intimacy as a result). Think about that: almost a quarter of American women felt fear during intimacy due to porn-inspired choking.
A follow-up survey, published
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