Claire Stephens
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6,733 appearances
38 recordings
3 series
first heard Dec 2025
last heard 6d ago
Claire Stephens’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Experts say that sexual choking has risen in recent years.
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One expert, Mari Krabb, she was interviewed in the nine newspapers, she said she started doing her work in 2009.
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No one talked about it then.
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But now it's become normal, she says, to young people of all backgrounds, all sexual orientations, across so socioeconomic groups and cultures.
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And the highest rates are occurring among women and gender diverse people.
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Chanel Contos, another noted expert in this area, she's talked about how it's been so normalized among young people that they don't even recognize it as an issue.
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She says, if you don't engage in this act of of sexual strangulation, you are considered boring and vanilla.
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What's changed and what can we do about it?
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That's what that's what I want to talk about.
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But that's actually an interesting point, Mia, because there is ethical porn now.
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There is porn that that depicts consent.
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And yet what you're saying is even if you depicted strangulation in that ethical porn.
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It's not making it better because the point is that you can't give consent for grievous bodily harm, which is what can result from this act.
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So if we think that the problem is porn, and I think specifically the problem is porn on smartphones, because it's now more readily accessible than it ever was before, the question is what we can do about it.
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And Tanya Plebisek, who we heard at the start, has called for a ban on depictions.
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Of suffocation or strangulation in porn, and that follows a similar UK decision.
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What do we think about this as an idea?
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Yeah, it's almost like that sex positivity that you referenced at the start, Mia, that really it's gone to the day in the twenty tens has kind of curdled into something where anyone who doesn't do this dangerous thing is seen as boring.
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That used to happen.
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