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Building a relationship with someone through manipulation with the intent to sexually abuse them. It is often shorted to “grooming.”

A term used to describe deep manual sex, where many fingers or a hand are gradually inserted into the vagina or anus.

A fluid used in order to make kinds of sex (such as masturbation, vaginal intercourse, anal intercourse or manual sex) more pleasant and comfortable, and/or to help prevent condoms from breaking by decreasing friction.

A framework for open/ethically nonomonogamous/poly relationships that involves one partner being a “primary,” centered above any other partners, the rest of whom are considered secondaries, tertiaries or comets.

How well something works under ideal or controlled conditions, like efficacy proven through scientific study.

Purposeful harm or mistreatment of another person, which can be verbal, emotional, physical or sexual. An ongoing pattern or cycle of such mistreatment or harm can characterize an abusive relationship.