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Online pornography depicting women being choked is to be banned, following a review that found such images are rife and have helped establish the act as a sexual norm.
The government confirmed the possession and publication of images showing strangulation and suffocation will be criminalised, as part of a crackdown on violent pornography.
While non-fatal strangulation is already an offence, its online depiction is not curre
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