sexual exploitation
Abusing others sexually
Sexual exploitation is taking advantage of someone sexually for personal gain—whether financial, psychological, or physical.
The term covers a range of abuses: coercing someone into prostitution, producing exploitative pornography, or manipulating a vulnerable person for sex.
In legal contexts, it often involves minors or situations with inherent power imbalances: The coach was charged with sexual exploitation of a student.
The phrase emphasizes that the victim is being used as a means to someone else's ends.
- rapeOilseed brassica crop
- coercionPressured compliance through threats
- sex traffickingForced commercial sexual exploitation
- human traffickingCriminal trade in people
- statutory rapeSex crime defined by age
child abuse · prostitution · trauma · trauma bonding · grooming · victim blaming · commodification · misogyny · sextortion · age of consent · fear · PTSD · abuse · consent violation · shame · forced labor · sex tourism · systemic oppression
- domestic abusedomestic violence, battering, batterer, spousal abuse, wife beating
- labor abusewage theft, unpaid wages, unpaid overtime, withheld wages, minimum wage violations
sexual exploitationmutual consent
Agreement by all parties
consensual sex · sexual autonomy · enthusiastic consent · bodily autonomy · informed consent
sexual exploitationsafeguarding
Preventing harm or loss
child protection · victim advocacy · survivor support · victim support · protective custody
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