Grooming the victim: an analysis of a perpetrator's seduction letter.
The authors review the current literature on the sexual victimization of adolescent males with attention given to victim characteristics and victim selection factors and strategies. Following this review, a letter written by a middle-aged man to entice a teenage boy into sexual activity is presented and analyzed. The strategy used by the letter-writer is to refute the usual reservations a teenage boy might have about engaging in sexual activity with a man. The approach used in the letter and the ensuing analysis are generalizable to teenage boys experiencing similar encounters and highlight the sophisticated seduction and grooming strategies used to sexually victimize adolescent males.
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Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH 44106-7167.
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D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D002650:Child Abuse, Sexual / Q000517:prevention & control* / Q000523:psychology; D006716:Homosexuality; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012725:Sexual Behavior; D014956:Writing