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ArticleArchives of sexual behavior2022

"It Was Scary, But Then It Was Kind of Exciting": Young Women's Experiences with Choking During Sex.

Debby Herbenick, Lucia Guerra-Reyes, Callie Patterson, Yael R Rosenstock Gonzalez, Caroline Wagner, Nelson Zounlome

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Article in Archives of sexual behavior, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 17 papers.

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17citing papers in PubMed
3.7field-weighted citation impact, top 6% of its field
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17 citing papers in PubMed, 48 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Debby Herbenick *Department of Applied Health Science, Indiana University School of Public Health-Bloomington, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, 47401, USA. debby@indiana.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0352-2248
Lucia Guerra-Reyes *Department of Applied Health Science, Indiana University School of Public Health-Bloomington, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, 47401, USA.
Callie PattersonDepartment of Applied Health Science, Indiana University School of Public Health-Bloomington, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, 47401, USA.
Yael R Rosenstock GonzalezDepartment of Applied Health Science, Indiana University School of Public Health-Bloomington, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, 47401, USA.
Caroline WagnerDepartment of Applied Health Science, Indiana University School of Public Health-Bloomington, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, 47401, USA.
Nelson ZounlomeDepartment of Counseling and Educational Psychology, School of Education, Indiana University, Bloomington, USA.
Indiana University Bloomington · USIndiana University Health · US

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Choking/strangulation during sex is prevalent among young adults, with one study finding that 58% of women college students had ever been choked during sex. However, no qualitative study has examined women's experiences with choking/strangulation during sex outside of intimate partner violence. The purpose of our qualitative interview study was to investigate women's experiences with choking and/or being choked during partnered sex. Through in-depth interviews with 24 undergraduate and graduate women students ages 18 to 33, we sought to understand how women communicate about choking, their learning about and initiation into choking, their feelings about being choked and choking others, as well as consent and safety practices used in relation to choking. We found that women had first learned about choking through diverse sources including pornography, erotic stories, magazines, social media, friends, and partners. While all 24 women had been choked during sex, only 13 of 24 had ever choked a partner. They described having engaged in choking with men as well as women and with committed as well as more casual partner types. Participants described consensual and non-consensual choking experiences. While many women enjoyed choking, others did it largely to please their sexual partner. Women described different methods and intensities of having been choked. Although very few had ever sought out information on safety practices or risk reduction, and only some had established safe words or safe gestures with partners, participants consistently expressed a belief that the ways in which they and their partner(s) engaged in choking were safe.

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Airway ObstructionIntimate Partner ViolenceAdolescentAdultEroticaFemaleFriendsHumansMaleSexual PartnersYoung AdultBDSMBreath playChokingKinkSexual asphyxiaStrangulation

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PMID34761344
PMCPMC8579901
OpenAlexW3212401196

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