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Normally, I am fine with people having kinks. However, choking is straight up bad, on account of actually damaging a key part of the body. Backdoor action involving toys is good fun when they are appropriate for the job - but there is no such thing for the neck.

Please, just don’t. Spank your partner with a crop, give em’ titty twists, do waxplay, pretend at rape if they have a safeword - but just don’t risk their wellbeing. Their lives are literally in your hands if you go for the throat. 🫤

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Evotech@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
You can chokehold without cutting much oxygen. Just pressing in om the side / back, not at the front

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- cy888@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  On the side is where the carotid arteries are. I suspect that blood going the brain might be a slightly important.
  
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StupidBrotherInLaw@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
I think it depends on how close to full choking you get. Gentle to moderate, broadly dispersed “chokingesque” pressure is fine as it doesn’t significantly interrupt blood flow. Using enough force or concentrating force to occlude the carotid arteries is asking for trouble.

Not only is there the risk of ischemic brain damage, the carotid sinus, located where pressure is often placed, is prone to arterial plaque formation due to increased turbulence. Disrupting those plaques can break them loose, causing a stroke. That’s how a mate of mine lost much of the use of his right arm, though I suspect he wasn’t getting choked out. Never asked though.

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