Violence towards women, including strangulation, is now a dominant theme of mass-market, super-accessible pornography. A 2010 study of themes of aggression in porn videos found that strangulation was almost niche. Porn, like most other forms of content online, has become exponentially more extreme as it competes for our attention. “Choke me, Daddy” is a staggeringly normal part of the modern online vernacular – well beyond the boundaries of porn sites. In response, the French minister for gender equality said: “Au revoir.”[ I’ve seen men watch porn in my workplaces.

Source: The Irish Times January 24, 2026 19:37 UTC