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Frequency, Method, Intensity, and Health Sequelae of Sexual Choking Among U.S. Undergraduate and Graduate Students

Although sexual choking is now prevalent, little is known about how people engage in choking in terms of frequency, intensity, method, or potential health sequelae. In a campus-representative survey of undergraduate and graduate students, we aimed to: (1) describe the prevalence of ever having choke...

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Autores principales: Herbenick, Debby, Fu, Tsung-chieh, Eastman-Mueller, Heather, Thomas, Sally, Svetina Valdivia, Dubravka, Rosenberg, Molly, Guerra-Reyes, Lucia, Wright, Paul J., Kawata, Keisuke, Feiner, John R.
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9333342/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35902430
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10508-022-02347-y
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author Herbenick, Debby
Fu, Tsung-chieh
Eastman-Mueller, Heather
Thomas, Sally
Svetina Valdivia, Dubravka
Rosenberg, Molly
Guerra-Reyes, Lucia
Wright, Paul J.
Kawata, Keisuke
Feiner, John R.
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Fu, Tsung-chieh
Eastman-Mueller, Heather
Thomas, Sally
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Rosenberg, Molly
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Kawata, Keisuke
Feiner, John R.
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description Although sexual choking is now prevalent, little is known about how people engage in choking in terms of frequency, intensity, method, or potential health sequelae. In a campus-representative survey of undergraduate and graduate students, we aimed to: (1) describe the prevalence of ever having choked/been choked as part of sex; (2) examine the characteristics of choking one’s sexual partners (e.g., age at first experience, number of partners, frequency, intensity, method); (3) examine the characteristics of having been choked during sex; and (4) assess immediate responses of having been choked including the extent to which frequency and method (e.g., hand, ligature, limb) of having been choked predicts the range of responses endorsed by participants. A total of 4254 randomly sampled students (2668 undergraduate, 1576 graduate) completed a confidential online survey during Spring 2021. The mean age of first choking/being choked was about 19, with more undergraduates than graduate students reporting first choking/being choked in adolescence. Women and transgender/gender non-binary participants were significantly more likely to have been choked than men. Participants more often reported the use of hands compared to limbs or ligature. Common responses to being choked were pleasurable sensations/euphoria (81.7%), a head rush (43.8%), feeling like they could not breathe (43.0%), difficulty swallowing (38.9%), unable to speak (37.6%), and watery eyes (37.2%). About 15% had noticed neck bruising and 3% had lost consciousness from being choked. Greater frequency and intensity of being choked was associated with reports of more physical responses as was use of limb (arm, leg) or ligature.
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spelling pubmed-93333422022-07-29 Frequency, Method, Intensity, and Health Sequelae of Sexual Choking Among U.S. Undergraduate and Graduate Students Herbenick, Debby Fu, Tsung-chieh Eastman-Mueller, Heather Thomas, Sally Svetina Valdivia, Dubravka Rosenberg, Molly Guerra-Reyes, Lucia Wright, Paul J. Kawata, Keisuke Feiner, John R. Arch Sex Behav Original Paper Although sexual choking is now prevalent, little is known about how people engage in choking in terms of frequency, intensity, method, or potential health sequelae. In a campus-representative survey of undergraduate and graduate students, we aimed to: (1) describe the prevalence of ever having choked/been choked as part of sex; (2) examine the characteristics of choking one’s sexual partners (e.g., age at first experience, number of partners, frequency, intensity, method); (3) examine the characteristics of having been choked during sex; and (4) assess immediate responses of having been choked including the extent to which frequency and method (e.g., hand, ligature, limb) of having been choked predicts the range of responses endorsed by participants. A total of 4254 randomly sampled students (2668 undergraduate, 1576 graduate) completed a confidential online survey during Spring 2021. The mean age of first choking/being choked was about 19, with more undergraduates than graduate students reporting first choking/being choked in adolescence. Women and transgender/gender non-binary participants were significantly more likely to have been choked than men. Participants more often reported the use of hands compared to limbs or ligature. Common responses to being choked were pleasurable sensations/euphoria (81.7%), a head rush (43.8%), feeling like they could not breathe (43.0%), difficulty swallowing (38.9%), unable to speak (37.6%), and watery eyes (37.2%). About 15% had noticed neck bruising and 3% had lost consciousness from being choked. Greater frequency and intensity of being choked was associated with reports of more physical responses as was use of limb (arm, leg) or ligature. Springer US 2022-07-28 2022 /pmc/articles/PMC9333342/ /pubmed/35902430 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10508-022-02347-y Text en © The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature 2022 This article is made available via the PMC Open Access Subset for unrestricted research re-use and secondary analysis in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for the duration of the World Health Organization (WHO) declaration of COVID-19 as a global pandemic.
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Herbenick, Debby
Fu, Tsung-chieh
Eastman-Mueller, Heather
Thomas, Sally
Svetina Valdivia, Dubravka
Rosenberg, Molly
Guerra-Reyes, Lucia
Wright, Paul J.
Kawata, Keisuke
Feiner, John R.
Frequency, Method, Intensity, and Health Sequelae of Sexual Choking Among U.S. Undergraduate and Graduate Students
title Frequency, Method, Intensity, and Health Sequelae of Sexual Choking Among U.S. Undergraduate and Graduate Students
title_full Frequency, Method, Intensity, and Health Sequelae of Sexual Choking Among U.S. Undergraduate and Graduate Students
title_fullStr Frequency, Method, Intensity, and Health Sequelae of Sexual Choking Among U.S. Undergraduate and Graduate Students
title_full_unstemmed Frequency, Method, Intensity, and Health Sequelae of Sexual Choking Among U.S. Undergraduate and Graduate Students
title_short Frequency, Method, Intensity, and Health Sequelae of Sexual Choking Among U.S. Undergraduate and Graduate Students
title_sort frequency, method, intensity, and health sequelae of sexual choking among u.s. undergraduate and graduate students
topic Original Paper
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9333342/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35902430
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10508-022-02347-y
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