What the experts say

Professor Heather Douglas, from the University of Melbourne’s Law School, said many young Australians are consenting to strangulation during sex without realising the serious injuries that can come from it.

According to medical experts, it can take just 10 seconds of strangulation for a person to lose consciousness, 30 seconds to lose bowel control and 150 seconds to cause death.

There is no safe way to strangle.