I spent years in the fetish and BDSM scene – I know exactly why people die during kinky sex

The best of Voices delivered to your inbox every week - from controversial columns to expert analysis Sign up for our free weekly Voices newsletter for expert opinion and columns Sign up to our free weekly Voices newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. She is the twenty-second UK woman to die in a so-called sex game gone wrong in the past 10 years. I spent my late teens and early twenties cavorting around fetish clubs, a fully paid up member of the London kink scene, but I know that anyone who is having kinky or violent sex needs to be educated about how to offset any potential risks. But given the potentially fatal consequences of ignorance, it's time for a fully fact-checked sex education database for adults, like the NHS health website. “Sex game gone wrong” can be a hastily pieced together excuse when a woman has been murdered.