Online Sexual Safety: Consent, Privacy, Security, and Digital Intimacy
Online sexual safety involves consent, privacy, security, boundaries, and protection from abuse during digital sexual and intimate interactions.
Online sexual safety involves consent, privacy, security, boundaries, and protection from abuse during digital sexual and intimate interactions.
Platform moderation is how online services review and manage user content and behavior, including sexual harassment, intimate-image abuse, grooming, and exploitation.
Safeguarding involves preventing and responding to abuse, exploitation, neglect, and other harms while protecting safety, dignity, and autonomy.
Child sexual abuse material, or CSAM, includes sexual images or recordings that depict or result from the abuse or exploitation of children.
Sexual exploitation of children involves using a child for sexual purposes through abuse, grooming, images, sextortion, trafficking, payment, or other forms of exploitation.
Online grooming uses digital communication to build trust, secrecy, or dependence in order to sexually exploit, coerce, or manipulate another person.
Grooming is a pattern of building trust, access, secrecy, or control to prepare someone for exploitation or abuse.
Sexual grooming is a pattern of building trust, access, or control over a child or vulnerable person to enable sexual exploitation or abuse.