Sextort
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Sextort is a verb meaning (transitive, informal) To coerce through the threat of revealing someone's sexual history.
Meaning
(transitive, informal) To coerce through the threat of revealing someone's sexual history.
Example Sentences
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.
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.
Word Forms
- sextorts
- sextorting
- sextorted
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include extort, sext, sexploit, turn out, sex-text, sexplore.
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