I was once ashamed to admit I’d been strangled nonconsensually during sex. Now I’m speaking up to save women’s lives | Hannah Ferguson

Young men are being taught that acts with the potential to kill are erotic.

The Albanese government must urgently regulate big tech and criminalise pornography depicting strangulation Last week, a 16-year-old girl was found unresponsive in a home on Sydney’s northern beaches.

She was airlifted to hospital and died two days later.

New South Wales police are investigating her death as the result of a sexual strangulation act.

Sources told the ABC the deceased may have experienced a seizure following asphyxiation, and that officers were told the sex was consensual.

While that investigation has yet to run its course, speaking generally, strangulation during sex is not a new phenomenon or conversation.

Just a few years ago it was relatively taboo to criticise this normalisation of violence in sex – it was often framed as “anti-kink” to raise concern about this dangerous act that is increasingly depicted in mainstream pornography.

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