INTERPOL's terminology to avoid trivializing the sexual abuse and exploitation of children

[Heidi]

We encourage the use of appropriate terminology to avoid trivializing the sexual abuse and exploitation of children.
https://www.interpol.int/en/Crimes/Crimes-against-children/Appropriate-terminology

[leftstreet]

1. DURec

[Heidi]

7. Thank you!

[SheltieLover]

2. Kick

[electric_blue68]

3. TY

[niyad]

4. Thank you for this very important information.

[Heidi]

5. Outside this list, there are related terms

that I consider highly inappropriate and likely hurtful, and most of them imply that a child is “having sex” with adults. In these cases, children aren’t “having sex” with adults; they’re being sexually abused and/or exploited. Cannot wait for someone to call us out as the “language Gestapo,” because

[SheltieLover]

8. Absolutely!

[Heidi]

9. And it's not even that difficult to change how we discuss these issues.

Victims’ and survivors’ right to respect and dignity are infinitely more important than any individual’s or group’s difficulty to adjust. Same with respecting people’s pronouns, not dead-naming our trans friends/family, and not using our indigenous friends’/family member’s settler names. “Woke” just means considerate, in my book—and it’s not a dirty word.

[Solly Mack]

6. K&R

[IronLionZion]

10. Trivializing the sexual abuse and exploitation of children

is practically the GOP platform when their MAGA hero is so obviously guilty.

[Heidi]

21. He's sure behaving as though he's guilty

and/or complicit.

[IronLionZion]

22. They know he's involved somehow, so they try to make it sound less bad

[Heidi]

23. Typical minimizing behavior.

Like, “He might be a Lying Loser, but he’s OUR Lying Loser and he wouldn’t lie about *that*.”

[IbogaProject]

11. Yep children are rape victims

[Hekate]

12. KnR

[Hekate]

13. Bookmarking

[Wild blueberry]

14. Thank you for this important information

[Heidi]

19. Thank you!

[LoisB]

15. Very important. Thank you for posting.

[Heidi]

20. Thank you

for being here, LoisB!

[WestMichRad]

16. Here's the recommended terminology

First are Terms to be used with caution, or avoided completely; then follows the Recommended term for each item.

(Avoid)- Child pornography
(Recommended)- Child sexual abuse material

(Avoid)- Child sex tourism
(Recommended)- Sexual exploitation of children in the context of travel and tourism

(Avoid)- Child sex tourist
(R)- Travelling perpetrators of child sexual offences

(Avoid)- Child prostitution
(R)- Exploitation of children in/for prostitution

(Avoid)- Child prostitute, child sex worker (R)- Victim of sexual exploitation

(Avoid)- Customer, client, John
(R)- Abuser, child sex offender

(Avoid)- Webcam child sex tourism / webcam child sex abuse
(R)- Live online child sexual abuse

[Heidi]

24. Thank you for posting the word-for-word INTERPOL recommended terms.

I was posting from my phone and the preview came out all wonky when I tried to copy and paste, so I only included the link in the OP.

[Heidi]

17. All credit to our beloved niyad

for her excellent thread here: https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=20609800

[chowder66]

18. Thank you for this!