#nonfatalstrangulation laws work: significant causal drop in #intimatepartnerhomicide in US. NFS is edge of homicide, increases odds of being murdered 7-fold; this law stops perps in their tracks. @scottishgov.bsky.social, still debating, take note! @institutefas.bsky.social tinyurl.com/37dazh2h

3 YEARS after law changed, Government finally tells schools they must outline medical and legal risk of #strangulation & sexual #choking in curriculum. England only - rest of UK needs to follow, yesterday. @institutefas.bsky.social assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/687a3d...

Discussion on sexual #choking (30mins in) citing our research on brain impact. Follows news that FINALLY Government issues SexEd guidance for schools covering risks of #strangulation. England only - rest of UK needs to follow ASAP. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Interesting pre-print using data from @womensaid.bsky.social on health outcomes from #domesticviolence. Threats to kill increase risk of #strangulation FOUR TIMES - clear escalation. NB it's not 'attempted' strangulation, it IS! @institutefas.bsky.social www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-6...

Worrying new paper from Prof Cath White: in 6 year period, doubling of #strangulation in sexual assault on children. All perps male. Association with victim's mental health - effect, or vulnerability? @institutefas.bsky.social @claremcglynn.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

UK Government to outlaw #strangulation aka #choking in porn. Brilliant news, proud of team for pushing on this. Porn has helped normalise this utterly abnormal act, such that girls as young as 12 risk #braininjury including #stroke, and #PTSD from their first sexual encounters.

It’s time the government took action on repeated recommendations in domestic homicide reviews and ensured all health professionals receive comprehensive training, including on the risk posed by domestic abuse-related suicides.

Healthcare workers are often the first, and only, point of contact for victims of abuse. It is essential they are equipped to identify, signpost and safeguard victims who need support.

As this report shows, the consequences of inaction can be serious harm, including death.

Timothy Spall looks well.

'Often people say they experience a “euphoric” feeling during strangulation, but that feeling is your brain cells being damaged – and you can’t regenerate new ones. If strangulation happens frequently, you’re putting yourself at risk of nerve damage, stroke and even death.’

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Study highlighting risk of #braininjury in #domesticviolence & long term health impacts. We know this; challenge now is to address. That's why we're piloting #neuropsychology in-reach with DV services in North Wales. Watch this space! @institutefas.bsky.social mentalhealth.bmj.com/content/28/1...

“It is clear that within books/ films strangulation is conveyed as something women desire, that it can be done safely & seriousness is connected to visible bruising, something research contradicts.”

Our research analysing strangulation in UK media. ifas.org.uk/strangulatio...

- We can’t learn from what we don’t know, so data is key if we are to support the government’s aims to halve violence against women and girls in a decade.

Full findings: ifas.org.uk/police-data-...

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My latest briefing on how the prevalence of sexual strangulation/choking risks serious harm to young women who are the unwitting guinea pigs of a large-scale experiment with their well-being.
We need far better education and regulation.
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Great paper. Plus 1) hypoxia affects frontal lobes ie cannot gesture/vocalise STOP as you say, but also hinders judgement/decision-making 2) I'm frequently seeing women where NFS has been used in DV as an escalation from sexual choking ("but we've done this before! you like it!") Horrible blurring.

New US paper, proposing new term "partner-inflicted brain injury" in #domesticviolence, to reflect finding that majority of DV survivors had a) likely brain injury & b) this was from repetitive & concurrent TBI (blows to head) + hypoxia from #strangulation. @institutefas.bsky.social

We are publishing research on strangulation in UK media through analysing online article titles.

We will be launching findings through 5 short weekly reports. Sign up to our newsletter to get an alert: shorturl.at/Vjayj

Access Part 1 the Introduction & Methodology: ifas.org.uk/strangulatio...

"We tell women to report crimes and then either don’t believe them, or say they were violent too when they do. And when they don’t report, we question why they stayed in a relationship and tell them that they wanted the abuse."
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Striking new US study, showing men presenting at hospital following #strangulation are 4.5 times more likely than women to have a CT scan. @institutefas.bsky.social #domesticviolence #sexualviolence #VAWG www.neurology.org/doi/abs/10.1...

If it's Brebis, which is simply French for sheep cheese, we're heading for another chevre/goat cheese FIASCO. But I is loving this. So, frankly my dear, I don't give Edam.

Totally agree. My focus is strangulation, @institutefas.bsky.social is Home Office funded, yet this is a public health emergency, not just within domestic & sexual violence, but the fact the majority of under 24s now agree they have been 'choked' during sex: risking a generation's brain health.

We welcome Baroness Bertin's report & the attention given to non-fatal strangulation (NFS) & porn. We welcome recommendations that NFS porn should be illegal to possess, distribute, publish.
We eagerly await Govt response & timeline of action.

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Within seconds, dyspraxia can set in, due to lack of oxygenated blood to the brain, making safe words redundant. Consent should also be informed, but there's little public awareness of the risks. Encouraged to see porn's role formally recognised in the review. Ministers now need to act! #vawg