Scientist and sex educator Debby Herbenick wrote a book called Yes, Your Kid. It is a book parents are not going to want to read, but they need to. And perhaps, even more importantly, their teenagers need to read it too. But it is not likely that they will

Herbenick is the director of the Center for Sexual Health Promotion at Indiana University and a noted researcher in the area of sexual behavior and health. In her book, she writes that there is a growing trend amongst teenagers that parents may not know about: choking, or sexual strangulation during sexual activity.

In fact, research from the United States, United Kingdom, and Germany demonstrates that sexual choking/strangulation has become prevalent among young adults, disproportionately affects women, often begins in adolescence, and is frequently first learned about through pornography, social media, partners, and friends (Herbenick et al., 2020, 2021c, 2022b; Savanta Com Res, 2019; Sun et al., 2017;........

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