By the time one lives as long as most readers of this blog, it takes something pretty extraordinary to knock us for a loop. But a recent newspaper article that I read shocked me, and I can’t get it out of my mind.

It seems, according to Debby Herbenick, director of the Center for Sexual Health Promotion at Indiana University, that there has been a rapid rise of “rough sex” among college students, particularly sexual strangulation.

In her research Dr. Herbenick found that nearly two-thirds of women in her most recent campus-representative survey of 5,000 students at an anonymized “major Midwestern university” said a partner had choked them during sex (one-third in their most recent encounter).  nyti.ms/3Q7QKtI

That’s just plain sad.