“I Don’t Feel Safe at All”: Examining Shattered Assumptions Among Male Victims of Sextortion
Journal of Interpersonal Violence
Published online on May 29, 2026
Abstract
Journal of Interpersonal Violence, Ahead of Print.
Online sexual extortion, or “sextortion,” describes a crime in which a victim is threatened with the public distribution of private, sexually explicit images unless they comply with the offender’s demands. Current research and law enforcement data ...
Online sexual extortion, or “sextortion,” describes a crime in which a victim is threatened with the public distribution of private, sexually explicit images unless they comply with the offender’s demands. Current research and law enforcement data ...