I was 10 when I first discovered that choking during sex was a thing. During an unsupervised internet sesh, I stumbled my way onto a list of celebrity deaths from autoerotic asphyxiation, AKA strangling yourself while masturbating, and I was bewildered.
“Do adults really enjoy this?” I wondered at the time.
Now, nearly two decades later, I still wonder but the answer is not as simple as it may seem. Especially now that series like The Idol, which raked in just shy of one million viewers at its premiere, presents choking like it’s erotic and sexy without any of discussion of the needed nuances at all.
