This summer a trend on TikTok saw young women and even girls listing off ‘kinks’ including choking and CNC.
⅓ of TikTok users are underage.
Streaming pornography has facilitated an increasing prevalence of sadomasochism in society.
In May, TikTok was made to remove more than 500,000 accounts in Italy following an intervention by the country’s data protection watchdog after a 10-year-old girl died of asphyxiation after participating in a BDSM “blackout challenge”.
techcrunch.com/2021/05/12/tik…
The 10-year-old girl in Italy died after taking part in a "choking game" on TikTok.
BDSM and choking are promoted by both adults and teens with nearly 300 million views combined for the search terms.
theguardian.com/world/2021/jan…
The hashtag for 'kinktok' has 6.2 BILLION views; 'choking' has 121 million views; 'CNC' (rape play) has 960 million; 'submissive' has 260 million; 'bondage' has 200 million.
Research has found that not only are men much more likely to report paraphilias / fetishes, they are also more likely to report sadism, whereas women report masochism. Some feminists have asserted this is the eroticization of the subordination of women.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…
The term 'sadomasochism' notably comes from two **men**, not from women: the Marquis de Sade, and Leopold von Sacher-Masoch. Sade eroticized sexual torture, and Sacher-Masoch in his novel 'Venus in Furs' explores fantasies of being dominated.
*Edit*
I need to mention that the CNC hashtag is mostly not related to the BDSM term. My mistake. 🙏
However, the amount of BDSM related content on TikTok is alarming and includes adult "educators" who describe various fetishes. One example is a woman with 500k followers.
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