Yeah you're right I guess. I think they could help ease some of the fans concerns fairly easy with this imo.
They could simply add two choices :
1. Kiss me roughly (the choking)
2. Kiss me gently (none choking)
Hopefully Larian will consider this in a future patch.
I still don't like the idea of the choking being there but I can see now how it can be to show his abusive side but still I'd still like the option to choose, especially since we had the other version previously.
The problem with Larian is that they don't add things, they replace them, that annoys the hell out of me, cause I buying a game you play it thinking it will keep the things in the way it was, hopefully improve it over time but to remove things and make it completely different.... that's not what I paid for... why not just add it instead of replacing? I'm just afraid all this new success are getting to their head, that they're going to ruin it for themselves at one point. Maybe I'm wrong.