Being loved, or being used?
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Think about all your different relationships.
They could be with close friends, a boyfriend or girlfriend – and maybe groups of friends from school or the area you live in.
As we grow up, we develop relationships with lots of different people. It’s how we learn what we enjoy about a relationship and what we don’t.
But things can go wrong along the way and people might try to use you or force you to do something you don’t want to do.
Sexual exploitation
Some people form relationships with young people to use them for sex.
People who do this want young people to think they are a friend, or a boyfriend or girlfriend. They want to gain their trust to get power over them. They might also use bribes, threats, humiliation and even violence to get power over them.
They use that power to force them to have sex, or do sexual things, with them and sometimes with other people. This is sexual exploitation and it’s a crime.
It happens to boys and girls and can be really hard to spot. Often people...
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