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How sexual partner abuse has changed with social media

  • Written by David Finkelhor, Professor of Sociology, University of New Hampshire
imageAn old problem with a digital twist.www.shutterstock.com

Incidents involving threats to expose sexual images, or what media are calling “sextortion,” are not new, but have evolved with social media.

In a large study we recently did on the topic, we found that sextortion mostly involves the classic dynamics of abusive relationships, or...

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