September 29, 2026 — 7:00pm

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Women in their early 20s risk becoming a generation with higher stroke risk at a younger age because of the “epidemic” of sexual strangulation, also known as the consensual practice of “choking”, forensic and research experts warn.

Dr Amelia McLean, of the Victorian Institute of Forensic Medicine, said the increase in the number of patients who had been sexually strangled is so striking that clinicians are worried normalisation of it will leave a generation with increased risk of brain injury.

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