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Help and Advice Online Sexual Harassment

Exploitation, coercion and threats

A person receiving sexual threats, being coerced to participate in sexual behaviour online, or blackmailed with sexual content.

A person receiving sexual threats, being coerced to participate in sexual behaviour online, or blackmailed with sexual content.

This includes a range behaviours, such as:

  • Harassing or pressuring someone online to share sexual images of themselves or engage in sexual behaviour online (or offline)
  • Using the threat of publishing sexual content (images, videos, rumours) to threaten, coerce or blackmail someone (‘sextortion’)
  • Online threats of a sexual nature (e.g., rape threats)
  • Inciting others online to commit sexual violence
  • Inciting someone to participate in sexual behaviour and then sharing evidence of it