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Last month the Guardian covered the normalisation of choking of women in sex: women report you'll be called vanilla if you don't want it, and women are being choked - sometimes into unconsciousness - on dates without prior discussion.
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How did this become the norm? Women's magazines promote choking as a beginner's kink, tumblr's famed for being full of cutesy choking images and it's standard for women to be choked in porn. But we wanted to look at instagram
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3/4 @instagram has a billion users and has acted to remove explicit content - self harm, sex and even nipple pics - previously. Here's what you can see under tags #chokeme #chokemedaddy and #suffocate. Strangulation of women shown as bold, mainstream, loving, funny, sexy. 
