TY  - JOUR
T1  - Language matters: Unintentional strangulation, strangulation activity, and the “choking game”
AU  - Katz KA, Toblin RL
Y1  - 2009/01/05
N1  - 10.1001/archpediatrics.2008.517
JO  - Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine
SP  - 93
EP  - 94
VL  - 163
IS  - 1
N2  - 
As defined in that article,1 the choking game is “self-strangulation or strangulation by another person with the hands or a noose to achieve a brief euphoric state caused by cerebral hypoxia.” Other articles in the scientific literature and news and entertainment media have referred to those same behaviors as the choking game or by such terms as space monkey or pass-out game,2- 3 because these are terms that youths who engage in these behaviors use to describe them.

SN  - 1072-4710
M3  - doi: 10.1001/archpediatrics.2008.517
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archpediatrics.2008.517
ER  -