sextort
English
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[edit]sextort (third-person singular simple present sextorts, present participle sextorting, simple past and past participle sextorted)
- (transitive, informal) To coerce through the threat of revealing someone's sexual history.
- 2019, Carrie Goldberg, Nobody's Victim: Fighting Psychos, Stalkers, Pervs and Trolls:
- Several of my clients were sextorted by former partners who threatened to distribute their target's naked images or videos unless the women returned to the relationships or acquiesced to the offenders' demands for sex.
- 2019 February 11, Quinta Jurecic, “A Turning Point for Sextortion”, in The Atlantic[1]:
- On the evening of February 7, Jeff Bezos announced that he had been sextorted. The Amazon CEO and Washington Post owner didn’t use the term in his bombshell Medium post, in which he accused the National Enquirer and its parent company, American Media Inc., of blackmailing him with “intimate photos” that he had taken of himself.