sextortion
noun/sɛkˈstɔɹʃən/
Etymology Blend of sex + extortion.
1
Colloquial A form of sexual extortion; the extortion of a person through the use of the history of their sexual conduct (such as saved sexting messages).
- Facebook had to assess nearly 54,000 potential cases of revenge pornography and “sextortion” on the site in a single month, according to a leaked document.2017 May 22, Nick Hopkins, Olivia Solon, “Facebook flooded with ‘sextortion’ and ‘revenge porn’, files reveal”, in The Guardian:
- Related terms
- sextort, sextortionist, revenge porn