Cybersex

Cybersex trafficking, or online sexual exploitation, is a cybercrime and a form of modern slavery. Cybersex trafficking is when a victim is forced into sexual exploitation using coercion, force, or fraud, and their abuse is streamed live on the internet via webcam, video, photography, or other digital media. Often, cybersex trafficking includes grooming (befriending a victim with the intent of manipulating them and lowering their inhibitions with the objective of sexual abuse), and it sometimes involves blackmail, coerced sexual acts or rape on webcam.

Cybersex or online sexual child exploitation is distinct from other sex crimes. Victims are transported by traffickers to “cybersex dens”, which are locations with webcams and internet-connected devices with live streaming software. There, victims are forced to perform sexual acts on themselves or other people in sexual slavery or raped by the traffickers or assisting assaulters in live videos. Victims are frequently ordered to watch the paying live distant consumers or purchasers on shared screens and follow their commands. It is often a commercialized, cyber form of forced prostitution. Women, children, and people in poverty are particularly vulnerable to coerced internet sex. The computer-mediated communication images produced during the crime are a type of rape pornography or child pornography that is filmed and broadcast in real time and can be recorded.