Slippage (dictionary)

BoyWiki Dictionary: Slippage (dictionary)

n Slippage (from the verb "to slip") occurs when a word or phrase takes on newer, broader meanings, often to the point where the meaning no longer is objectively useful and/or valid.

Many words relating to the topic of child sexuality have undergone great "slippage" since the moral panic over (the supposed) "harms" to young people who are involved in adult/child or adult/young person sexual relationships began in the mid-1970s. Examples of words or expressions which have undergone "slippage" are:

• rape
• abuse
• exploitation
• trauma
• sexual abuse
• grooming
• denial
• predator
• pedophile
• high risk
• victim
• perpetrator
• prostitution
• trafficking
• pornography
• nudity
• inappropriate
• harmful

See also

List of derogatory terminology directed at boylovers