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Sexual Strangulation Among Teenagers Is So Common, They Had To Invent A New Law
Down the rabbit hole of social media and the criminalization of boys.
I’ve been a legal secretary for a very long time, and I can tell you, it’s not every day that we run across a new law.
Laws tend to be very rooted in place, like old, particularly ugly trees that need to come down, but no one wants to spend the time or money.
That is, until a behavior becomes so widespread and such an undeniable problem that something has to be done.
I am by no means an expert on sexual kinks and fetishes. But at this point, sexual strangulation has left the realm of “fetish” and landed solidly next to the missionary position.
And it’s done so with lightning speed.
There are a lot, a lot of sexual kinks and fetishes out there. This article in Allure may leave some people clutching their pearls and wondering what the hell is wrong with people. (Vorarephilia was a new one to me — thanks, Armie Hammer.)
But despite TV shows like Euphoria and the prevalence of pornography on every possible platform, people are actually having much less sex.
Between 2009 and 2018, the proportion of adolescents reporting no…
