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July 8, 2025 6 mins
“Is it still love if it leaves a mark?” That’s the provocative question at the heart of this unforgettable episode of The Ben and Skin Show, where the crew dives into the controversial and eye-opening topic of intimacy, consent, and the blurred lines of modern romance.Join hosts Ben Rogers, Jeff “Skin” Wade, Kevin “KT” Turner, and Krystina Ray as they open the doors to the infamous Love Shack—a segment where no topic is too taboo and no joke is off-limits. This time, they tackle the rising trend of choking during sex, its normalization among younger generations, and the serious consequences that can follow.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to the love shack.

Speaker 2 (00:02):
Baby Bennet's getting ladies talking love life and a white Mercedes.
Maybe let us be.

Speaker 1 (00:08):
Nice to you advice and you welcome to the love shack.
Lady Life, you get crazy, you need two sexpert's roadhouse says,
let me handle the bad problems for your house.

Speaker 3 (00:24):
Yes, an interesting read is something that I had. There's
an article.

Speaker 4 (00:32):
And it's about the growing concern around the normalization of
choking or strangulation if you'd like to call it that
during passionate love making. And that just's led to the
recent announcement over in Europe that Porno's depicting that will
be criminalized.

Speaker 1 (00:50):
Where's that in Europe? Interesting? So where are you gonna
find it? Because you also like the accents, this would
be a problem. You just gotta you gotta straight it
to a cane server VPN. You like me to.

Speaker 4 (01:02):
Choke A Okay, No, it's not good.

Speaker 3 (01:06):
I don't want to see Canadians.

Speaker 4 (01:09):
It has become so standard among young people that one
recent Council funded sex education presentation included safe choking advice
such as quote it's never okay to start choking someone
without asking them first.

Speaker 2 (01:26):
See ben When the request is made. You're in the clear.
That's what you taught me. I want you to choke me. Yeah,
I declined that what you said.

Speaker 1 (01:37):
I declined that it just felt like set up dude.
And she's had some people killed before, right. Also, you don't.
You just don't know your own strength, you know. Yeah. Also,
and you're in your prime.

Speaker 4 (01:48):
Also in that sex education presentation, it's a quote consent
should also happen every time sexual choking is an option,
not just the first time, because like if you like,
if you're all about it the first time, that doesn't
you mean I threw out all the rules for the
rest of the game.

Speaker 3 (02:04):
It was just the power ploy for a minute.

Speaker 2 (02:06):
It also doesn't seem that loving Canada. I mean, yeah,
I mean in the moment, but I mean later she's
gonna make lunches for your kids and stuff and you're
sitting Yeah, how loving is knocking at the back doors
to strangle her?

Speaker 1 (02:26):
Most Most of those acts aren't loving for being honest.

Speaker 2 (02:31):
Holding hands yeah, while doing it right, missionary. I just
don't know, man, I just don't know about that. Okay,
what about when there's a lot of loud grunting, You guys,

(02:51):
you guys, got to see My Groover. It's the best
love scene I've ever seen.

Speaker 4 (02:56):
I turned it on, watched fifteen minutes of it this weekend,
and turn it off.

Speaker 3 (03:01):
It's not funny.

Speaker 1 (03:03):
You're crapping on Will Forte.

Speaker 2 (03:04):
You need to see Will Forte is combined four minutes
since Staten Island Summer. He plays He plays a paraplegic
that had a motorcycle accident but would do it all
over again.

Speaker 1 (03:15):
You might be too young. He is making fun of
the eighties quite a bit.

Speaker 4 (03:18):
Yeah, what part did you see? The first fifteen minutes
you saw him assemble his super team.

Speaker 3 (03:26):
There's not a laugh in there.

Speaker 1 (03:28):
Oh my god, all I did was laughter.

Speaker 2 (03:30):
I think you need to see Staaten alland Summer. Now
there's a scene where Will Forte does a cannonball off
the side of the we're.

Speaker 3 (03:35):
Promoting that movie. I don't like that.

Speaker 2 (03:39):
Think about a guy to wheelchair doing a cannonball inside
of a pool.

Speaker 3 (03:42):
Were you paid to promote this movie?

Speaker 2 (03:45):
The entire movie is making fun of mcgroober and the
eighties and the idea that it's Rambo the war veteran
who's out that we got to pull him back in
because the world's in jeopardy, but.

Speaker 1 (03:59):
He doesn't want to come back. His life is in
this village.

Speaker 4 (04:02):
Now you didn't like any of that, I really didn't.

Speaker 1 (04:06):
I'm starting to think you're not funny.

Speaker 4 (04:07):
And then you know my other guy, Kent, who hosts
the mat about movies podcast, Big Movie Guy. He also
says it's the greatest movie ever mcgiver, mcgoover. But guys,
well we're getting we're getting disrobed over here, I mean
derailed over here.

Speaker 2 (04:23):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (04:24):
So there's a woman in this article. Her name is Mackenzie.

Speaker 4 (04:26):
She formed a group in twenty eighteen called we Can't
Consent to this her thing she's got an issue with.
There's a growing number of women who are killed or
injured in violence that is claimed to be consensual.

Speaker 1 (04:37):
Oh god.

Speaker 4 (04:38):
A list of men who have gotten off or their
charges have been less because they've committed murder. In her eyes,
they've committed murder, but they're using the it was just consensual.

Speaker 3 (04:50):
So they did some research in this article. It's wild.
I did not know. I did not know.

Speaker 4 (04:58):
This evidence suggests that strangulation is now the second most
common cause of stroke in women under the age of forty.

Speaker 3 (05:06):
Oh my god.

Speaker 4 (05:09):
According to one piece of research, it's more dangerous than waterboarding.

Speaker 1 (05:14):
Really. How many women under forty are going through waterboarding
is an interesting thing in that research. How do we
have who are these people? Are they just soldiers at
Guantanamo Bay? I want you to waterboard me. I want
you to do you this water torture on my forehead.
He doesn't seem that loving.

Speaker 2 (05:37):
I can see it for a night, but maybe not
for a marriage.

Speaker 3 (05:40):
Six or seven other guys in the room.

Speaker 1 (05:42):
With honey for our honeymoon, I brought some friends.

Speaker 2 (05:50):
Hey, can you help me lug this ozarka bottle up
into the hotel?

Speaker 1 (05:55):
Why? Oh, don't worry about it. I would leave your
fatigues on. Uh?

Speaker 3 (06:00):
Why are the fourst cats here all right?

Speaker 1 (06:02):
Coming up next? Oh?

Speaker 2 (06:04):
Man, pause, it's the big finish kg's explosive fireworks segment
to wrap up the show.

Speaker 1 (06:09):
This is three minutes away. Don't go nowhere. That's next.
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