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These "personal adult activities" are highly risky and, given the ease by which a man may harmfully strangle a woman compared to vice versa, a form of gendered violence. Nothing at all like playing football.

Overhauling the Equality Act, which would be a complex and time-consuming process, wasn't in Labour's election campaign either. They have more pressing issues to deal with.

Anyway, the Supreme Court judgment confirmed that everyone's rights are still protected so it's not like there's a huge oversight that needs to be corrected.

Consent needs to be adequately informed. Plus it is an ongoing process, and being strangled affects one's ability to continue providing consent due to its effects on the brain and body.

Please read this paper and reconsider your perspective, it's a systematic review from medical professionals that discusses the harms of strangulation: https://doi.org/10.1080/09602011.2020.1868537

If your partner asked you to stab them in the belly as a sexual kink, would you do so? I would hope not. Same principle applies to strangulation. You don't have to inflict harm just because you're being asked to.

This law was introduced to help deal with what is essentially a public health issue.

Any law can be framed as oppression on the basis that it informs people they're not allowed to do something. Speed limits oppress drivers who want to drive over 70 mph, etc.

Also, it was the Supreme Court who decided on the issue of transwomen being legally interpreted as men in the Equality Act, this was independent of the Government.

The simplification in the article is because it is mostly men doing this to mostly women.

In the worst outcome, there have been manslaughter charges raised against men who choked their partners to death, where "strangulation kink" has been used in the defence of these men. So it is clearly a problem.

It's a public health issue. What people - mostly men - see in pornography, they copy and repeat in the bedroom. There should be no normalisation of strangling one's partner. It's dangerous and harmful.