Draft:Groomer

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A groomer, in child protective services parlance, is an adult who engages young people in an inappropriate way, with the idea of working with them in later years, again, in inappropriate ways. Considering the age differences, what is inappropriate are usually the sexual connotations of the relationship.

Grooming is often part of media scare stories about paedophilia. The usual claim is that internet chatrooms are infested with them.

A common claim of the racist right in the UK is that South Asian gangs are grooming white girls for their own use. This is a variation on the old white slave trade stories, but at least one gang has been caught. Nonetheless, the phenomenon has been exaggerated and is promoted for racist ends.

Culture wars

In recent decades, Sex education has become increasingly politicized. While conservative ideals of abstinence only education backfired, an increasingly progressive left wing has pushed for more understanding of LGBT lives in sex-ed in many different grades. This has caused panic among conservatives, as it is seen by them as a push to make pedophilia acceptable in society (or a push to make homosexuality acceptable, which is seen as the exact same thing or something just as bad by homophobes).

See also

• Pedophilia
• Child abuse
• Rochdale sex trafficking gang

External links

• Sex Offenders and Grooming