- Some conservatives have begun utilizing phrases like “grooming” usually related to baby intercourse abuse.
- Such rhetoric hurts the LGBTQ folks, significantly homosexual males who’ve lengthy been accused of predatory habits.
- Careless use of phrases related to baby intercourse abuse diminishes the expertise of survivors, advocates say.
Grooming, a time period related to adults who sexually abuse youngsters, has grow to be an assault phrase in at the moment’s battle over anti-LGBTQ laws and is spilling out into the broader tradition wars.
The time period, coined within the Eighties, describes a course of used to realize entry to a possible sufferer, coerce them to comply with the abuse and scale back the chance of being caught, based on RAINN, a nationwide anti-sexual violence group.
