August 28, 2026 — 5:00am

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John* was an 18-year-old student who had just moved out of home and was eager to please the first time he was strangled during sex.

“I got a shock the first time I was choked and slapped in the face,” he said. “But then I thought, ‘maybe I’m the prude here’.

“A lot of my friends were doing it so we had this weird kind of Stockholm Syndrome effect where everyone is talking about it and saying ‘oh that’s so hot’.”

Asphyxiation was supposed to give you an extra high during sex, John said, although this never happened…

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