Scientific studies show that women who are choked have more psychological problems and changes in brain connectivity.

Choking during sex can produce brain damage from neuronal death from anoxia, reperfusion injury, and changes in heartbeat.

Asphyxia during sex can be done using an air choke or a blood choke, which block air entry or the blood supply to the brain, respectively.

Death by autoerotic asphyxiation is less common that thought. Still, choking is the most deathly BDSM activity.

Several surveys show that college students increasingly practice choking during sex

Porn is not addictive. It induces short increases of dopamine and not the sustained ones produced by cocaine and opioids.

I struggle to break up with Catholicism while attending an elite school ran by Opus Day in Madrid.

I grew up in the Spanish city of Santiago de Compostela being indoctrinated by the Catholic organization Opus Dei.

Personal power is to have the mental fortitude to live with meaning and happiness.

The myth of sexual purity creates the cliché of prostitution as an indelible stain that soils women.

Women engage in prostitution to pay for college, escaping abuse, supporting their children, living richly and sexual exploration.

When an old fisherman tried to sexually abuse me in his boat, I escaped swimming. Years later, I visited him on his deathbed.

The stereotypes of the pimp and the Madam are used to accuse prostitutes of proxenetism when they try to run their business

Unique characteristics of the human brain let us experience suffering as extending to the past and the future, and to others.

Sex workers do not want to be rescued through marriage or exploitative jobs.

Customers of prostitution (johns) are sexually frustrated men who cannot find partners because of low income, age or disability.

An inquiry into the nature of life, from Schrodinger insights to homeostasis, intracellular signals and life as information processing.

Ten strategies of dishonesty and abuse in the internet, used to attack, discredit and silence.

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