History of grooming ABRIDGED

[Artaxerxes II]

Interesting thread regarding the “grooming gangs”. I found the first tweets interesting, which go over how the concept began: https://xcancel.com/docrussjackson/stat ... 0266147842

The juiciest part is this:

Intended to replace the term 'child prostitution', which implies a level of consent, CSE is a form of child sexual abuse in which children are offered something—eg money, drugs, alcohol, food, a place to stay, or even just affection—in exchange for sexual activity.
CSE includes 'online grooming' & 'localised grooming', formerly known as 'on-street grooming'.

'Localised grooming' involves a group of abusers targeting vulnerable children in a public place, offering them sweets, alcohol, drugs or takeaway food etc in exchange for sex.
The targets can include children in the care of the local authority, as in Rotherham.

Adele Gladman & Angie Heal, argued that describing vaginal, oral & anal rape, murder & attempted murder as "exploitation" does not help people understand the seriousness of the crimes.

A news search shows that the term “grooming gangs” was potentially coined & first used in a UK newspaper, by Rupert Murdoch's Sun on January 6, 2011, in an article titled: 'How to spot if your child is victim of a sex gang; UK TRAFFICKING HORROR.'

At this point, it’s undeniable that ‘grooming’ in this context has largely came to replace seduction when it was supplanted by investigative forces, and has now largely supplanted in cases that would largely be chalked off as ‘seduction’ and exchanging favours. In other words, ‘grooming’ is the pathologisation of normal behaviour via thought-termination cliche.

[Officerkrupke]

It’s just a way to make people not think tbh. Seduction is more ambiguous, grooming means abuse.

[Jim Burton]

One of Lanning's early typologies was the seductive pedophile type, so LEOs did first want to describe it as that.

Grooming is originally a term for unapproved seduction (that which the parent and/or authority disagrees with, but the youth consents).

Grooming has since become a term used to cover for racism and homophobia, depending if you are in a country that is more openly racist (UK) or homophobic (US). This word has been useful to racists, female supremacists and homophobes, because it is reflexive and evocative, it can be applied to everything without critique.