Romance Fraud: Online Dating, Emotional Manipulation, and Scams
Romance fraud uses a fake or deceptive romantic relationship to obtain money, personal information, sexual material, or another benefit from a targeted person.
Romance fraud uses a fake or deceptive romantic relationship to obtain money, personal information, sexual material, or another benefit from a targeted person.
Platform moderation is how online services review and manage user content and behavior, including sexual harassment, intimate-image abuse, grooming, and exploitation.
Virtual sex is sexual interaction through digital technologies such as video, messaging, virtual reality, audio, or remotely controlled sexual devices.
Video sex is live sexual interaction through a video call or webcam and may involve sexual conversation, nudity, masturbation, or other consensual digital activity.
Sexting consent is voluntary, specific agreement to send or receive sexual messages, images, or videos and does not automatically permit saving or sharing them.
Intimate image consent is specific agreement about creating, recording, viewing, storing, or sharing sexual images and does not automatically extend to other uses.
Digital sexual privacy is a person’s control over intimate images, sexual communications, sexual data, recordings, and other private sexual information online.
Digital intimacy is emotional, romantic, or sexual closeness created through messaging, video, online interaction, and other forms of digital communication.
Cybersex is sexual interaction through digital technology, including messages, video, audio, images, or role-play between consenting participants.
Teledildonics uses connected sexual devices that can be controlled remotely through apps, the internet, or other digital systems for solo or partnered sexual interaction.