{"id":4232,"date":"2018-09-15T13:53:55","date_gmt":"2018-09-15T13:53:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2018\/09\/15\/nonconsensual-choking\/"},"modified":"2018-09-15T13:53:55","modified_gmt":"2018-09-15T13:53:55","slug":"nonconsensual-choking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2018\/09\/15\/nonconsensual-choking\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Nonconsensual Choking’"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was struck by a curious expression I found in a recent NYRB piece<\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n

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I faced criminal charges including hair-pulling, hitting during intimacy in one instance, and\u2014the most serious allegation\u2014nonconsensual choking while making out with a woman on a date in 2002.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

As opposed to what? Consensual<\/em> choking? So if you are on a date and the girl consents to being choked, then it is morally acceptable? And what sort of girl wants to be choked? Next stop: erotic asphyxiation. Why not, if it is consensual? You might even try mutual erotic asphyxiation. That might not end well, however. David Carradine's auto-erotic adventure in auto-asphyxiation in a Bangkok hotel room proved to be his last.<\/span><\/p>\n

From another source<\/a>, I gather that the hitting mentioned in the quotation is punching a girl in the head against her will. So if she wants to be punched in the head,  there is nothing wrong with it?<\/span><\/p>\n

I'd say we are living in sick times if the consent of the done to<\/em> is sufficient for the moral acceptability of the doer's deed. <\/span><\/p>\n

I'll leave it to you to work out why.<\/span><\/p>\n

Related entry: Real Enough to Debase, but not to Satisfy<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

UPDATE (9\/16)<\/span><\/p>\n

A reader expands our vocabulary of depravity with a link to donkey punch<\/a>. Not for the easily shocked. But I think it is important to look human wretchedness hard in the face and realize what becomes of morality when it is untethered from a transcendent anchor. This is what is happening in the RCC under Bergoglio the Termite. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was struck by a curious expression I found in a recent NYRB piece: I faced criminal charges including hair-pulling, hitting during intimacy in one instance, and\u2014the most serious allegation\u2014nonconsensual choking while making out with a woman on a date in 2002. As opposed to what? Consensual choking? So if you are on a date … Continue reading “‘Nonconsensual Choking’”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[180,60,6,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-decline-of-the-west","category-ethics","category-language-matters","category-sex-love-lust"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4232\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}