Debby Herbenick, Tsung-Chieh Fu, Heather Eastman-Mueller, Sally Thomas, Dubravka Svetina Valdivia, Molly Rosenberg, Lucia Guerra-Reyes, Paul J Wright, Keisuke Kawata, John R Feiner
Although sexual choking is now prevalent, little is known about how people engage in choking in terms of frequency, intensity, method, or potential health sequelae. In a campus-representative survey of undergraduate and graduate students, we aimed to: (1) describe the prevalence of ever having choked/been choked as part of sex; (2) examine the characteristics of choking one's sexual partners (e.g., age at first experience, number of partners, frequency, intensity, method); (3) examine the characteristics of having been choked during sex; and (4) assess immediate responses of having been choked including the extent to which frequency and method (e...
August 2022: Archives of Sexual Behavior