What is sexual grooming?
What is sexual grooming?
Sexual grooming is the process by which a sexual predator cultivates a relationship with a potential victim. Through grooming, the abuser builds trust and an emotional connection to the targeted victim in order to manipulate and abuse them.
What are examples of grooming?
Examples of grooming behaviour may include:
- giving gifts or special attention to a child or young person, or their parent or carer, making the child or young person feel special and/or indebted to an adult.
- making close physical contact sexual, such as inappropriate tickling and wrestling/play fighting.
What does grooming mean in abuse?
Grooming is when someone builds a relationship, trust and emotional connection with a child or young person so they can manipulate, exploit and abuse them. Children and young people who are groomed can be sexually abused, exploited or trafficked.
How do I know if I’ve been groomed?
Signs of grooming
- Send you lots of messages.
- Ask you to keep your conversations secret.
- Try to find out more.
- Start sending you sexual messages.
- Get you to share personal information.
- Try to blackmail you.
How do you know your child is a predator?
Spends more time with children than adults or peers – they may even come off as immature and childish. Overly affectionate/playful with children – hugging, tickling, wrestling, holding or having a child sit on their lap. Has a “favorite” child they seem to spend time with (which may vary from year to year)
How do I groom myself down there?
How to prep your pubes for removal
- Clean your tools. Keep a separate grooming kit for your bits.
- Trim excess hair before you shave, shape, or tidy.
- Bathe before grooming.
- Exfoliate.
- Lather up.
- Shave or trim in the direction of hair growth.
- Take your time and use caution.