After attending workshops on the dangers , researching the consequences personally I will never do choking again . Breath play on the other hand I can do , because there is less risk of causing damage or death from cardiac arrests . The reason the violent porn ban in the UK occurred , was due a girl doing choking play with a Dom who had a kink for choking , with videos on his computer . He accidentally killed her and the girls mother started the cause to ban violent porn . That guy probably believed that he knew the risks , was risk aware and accepted the risks but accidents happen often . One of the main kink dying accidents is caused by choking strangulation where people believe they understand the risks and believe they know how to do it safely . There will be people here who believe they can do choking safe , people in the scene too . It is your responsibility to research , check the risks and decide if an act is worth the risk . For myself and my Dom husband , we have been to the workshops , read the articles and decided for us the risk is too high . Instead we decided to switch to breath play alone but you may decide you can find a way to choke without causing damage and that is your choice alone .