Sextortion: Sexual Blackmail, Intimate Images, and Digital Coercion
Sextortion uses threats involving sexual images or private sexual information to demand money, more content, sexual activity, or another benefit.
Sextortion uses threats involving sexual images or private sexual information to demand money, more content, sexual activity, or another benefit.
Sexual extortion uses threats involving intimate images or sexual information to demand money, sexual activity, more content, or another benefit.
Image-based sexual abuse involves creating, sharing, altering, or threatening to distribute intimate sexual images without the depicted person’s consent.
Technology-facilitated sexual abuse uses digital tools to enable sexual coercion, intimate-image abuse, secret recording, sextortion, or other violations of sexual privacy.
A romance scam uses a false romantic or intimate connection to obtain money, personal information, account access, or intimate content.
Learn what intimate image abuse means, how private imagery may be recorded, altered, threatened, or shared without consent, and why accountability matters.
Learn what image-based abuse means, how intimate imagery may be created, shared, threatened, or altered without consent, and why accountability matters.
Learn what revenge porn means, why the term can be misleading, and how non-consensual intimate-image sharing violates consent, privacy, and autonomy.
Learn what non-consensual intimate imagery means, how private images become image-based abuse, and why consent, privacy, removal, and accountability matter.
Sexting is the exchange of sexual messages, images, audio, or videos through digital devices and requires consent, trust, privacy, and careful online safety.