In June 2025, News.com.au ran an article about the UK banning pornography depicting strangulation. This article will be useful to people engaging in, or considering engaging in sexual choking, as well as service providers and healthcare providers working with people engaging in, or considering engaging in sexual choking. The article features comments by Karen Bevan,…
The lack of data about women’s experiences of strangulation in the context of domestic, family and sexual violence, and consensual sexual choking, impacts service providers’ ability to implement best practice screening and assessment. Developed in May 2025, this recorded training shares information gathered, and key insights learnt by Women’s Health NSW in rolling out the…
This webinar was put on by Central and Eastern Sydney Primary Health Network for primary healthcare providers. It was designed to share the latest information on non-fatal strangulation in the context of domestic, family and sexual violence, and in consensual sexual choking. It focused on the important role primary healthcare providers play in identifying, screening…
This HealthEd podcast features Dr Frances Chen, from Leichhardt Women’s Community Health Centre, and focuses on strangulation in the context of domestic, family and sexual violence. Dr Chen discusses the role general practitioners (GP) play in women’s recovery after strangulation, emphasising that GPs are often the first person a women will disclose experiences of violence to. Dr…
This digital story is for service providers who work with men who use power and control in their relationships. It gives you some examples of ways you can raise sexual choking with men who use violence. Women’s health centres don’t just work with women, through events, partnerships and outreach, they connect with their whole community.…