Strangulation is an assault on dignity. When someone chooses to strangle another person, they dehumanise and degrade the person they are strangling. It’s time we talked about sexual strangulation. This dangerous practice, often promoted in mainstream pornography, has now found its way into many young people’s sexual expectations and experiences. It’s time we talked about this… Continue reading Strangulation often co-occurs with coercive control, sexual offences, and image-based abuse
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From Support to Protection — by Don Hennessy. We Need to Protect the Target Woman and Sanction her Abuser
With the introduction of laws which recognise coercive control and mental cruelty, it is time for the broader women’s movement to take a new position when working with clients who are living with or in contact with male intimate abusers. In taking a new position we must be fully informed about the problem. We must… Continue reading From Support to Protection — by Don Hennessy. We Need to Protect the Target Woman and Sanction her Abuser