It’s impressive to me how many men have done it without checking,” 29-year-old Anna (not her real name) tells me, when I ask her how she feels about choking during sex. “I distinctly remember thinking ‘I wonder what I responded to that read as consent to that?’. Was it rough kissing? Something else?”
I read my colleague Hadley Freeman’s column in The Sunday Times this weekend in a growing state of shock. Hadley described how, on three occasions, a man had choked her in bed. I then read the section in Escape, the book she references, written by another journalist, Marie Le Conte. Le Conte writes that choking during sex was “mainstream” among those under 40. “If I were to rank it,” says Le Conte, “I would say it sits somewhere around the light spanking mark . . . not so out of the ordinary that you would mention it to someone.”
moroccan columnist. marie le conte, a french moroccan columnist. at least three people are dead and around another dozen people are missing after an explosion brought down a block of flats on jersey. the blast happened in the early hours of the morning in the capital, st helier. jersey police say residents had reported smelling gas in the area. a short time ago thejeresey police and fire services held a press conference. robin smith, chief officer of the states ofjersey police gave this update a short while ago. it is as i described this morning, a scene of utter devastation. i mean, the building has completely collapsed. it is. it doesn t even look like a building was. so a very significant explosion with a very, very wide scene, hence the reasons why we have the cordons the way they are because of course that s about keeping people safe as well as any evidence that may