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Sex141
Sex141 is a Hong Kong website that provides advertising for sex workers. It operates under the "141" format, which allows individual workers to advertise from rented apartments.
Sextortion
Sextortion is sexual blackmail, or sexual extortion, where offenders threaten to release intimate images unless demands are met. Financial variants often target young men aged 18 to 24.
Sexual abuse
Sexual abuse: coerced sexual acts or acts directed against a person's sexuality, including child sexual abuse and image-based sexual abuse; WHO estimates 31.6% of women affected, with evolving legal responses.
Sexual abuse of animals
Sexual abuse of animals (bestiality, zoophilia) is human sexual contact with nonhuman animals, criminalized in nearly all US states and much of Europe, with veterinary forensic methods and recent UK law reforms defining the offense.
Sexual abuse scandal in New Orleans Boy Scout Troop 137
Troop 137 scandal: a 1974 New Orleans Boy Scout troop whose adult leaders ran a child sexual abuse and prostitution ring, exposed in 1976, prosecuted 1977-1978, and later featured in the Netflix film Scouts Honor.
Sexual assault
Sexual assault is sexual activity without freely given consent, covering rape and unwanted sexual contact. Key facts: CDC prevalence data, the Hale marital rape exemption, and consent-based law reform in Canada, the UK, and France.
Sexual assault in the United States military
Sexual assault in the US military, also called military sexual trauma, covers sexual offenses under the UCMJ. Key facts: 7,998 reports in FY2025, 33% reporting rate, SAPRO program, independent special trial counsel since 2023.
Sexual grooming
Sexual grooming is the process of building trust with a child to prepare sexual abuse; also called online grooming or child grooming. Covers grooming strategies, online versus offline patterns, UNICEF prevalence data, and grooming laws in the UK, Australia, and Singapore.
Sexual harassment
Sexual harassment, also called unwelcome sexual conduct or sex-based harassment, is sex discrimination under Title VII, taking quid pro quo and hostile work environment forms, prohibited in nearly two-thirds of UN states and governed by ILO Convention 190.
Sexual misconduct
Sexual misconduct is a non-legal umbrella term for unwelcome or non-consensual sexual behavior, spanning harassment, abuse, and assault, used in workplace, medical, academic, military, and UN policies; neither Black's nor Ballentine's law dictionaries define it.
Sexual penetration
Sexual penetration, also known as penetrative sex, is the placing of a penis, finger, or object into the vagina or anus, or a sex organ into the mouth.
Sexual predator
Sexual predator is a legal designation, mainly in US law, for convicted sex offenders judged likely to reoffend; it triggers civil commitment, registration, and restrictions, grounded in Washington's 1990 act and Kansas v. Hendricks.
Sexual slavery
Sexual slavery: holding a person in slavery and forcing sexual acts or services. Also called sex slavery, enslavement for sexual exploitation; overlaps sex trafficking. Key facts: ISIL slave markets in Raqqa, ILO $173 billion sexual-exploitation profits, 6.3 million victims in 2021.
Sexual violence in South Africa
Sexual violence in South Africa covers rape, sexual assault, and femicide under the 2007 Sexual Offences Act, with among the world's highest recorded rates, roughly one-third of rapes unreported, and a National Strategic Plan on GBVF (2020-2030) coordinating response.
Sexy Beast
Sexy Beast is a 2000 British-Spanish crime drama and black comedy, the feature debut of director Jonathan Glazer, starring Ray Winstone, Ben Kingsley, and Ian McShane.
Shabir Ibrahim Kaskar
Shabir Ibrahim Kaskar, elder brother of Dawood Ibrahim and D-Company co-founder, was shot dead on 12 February 1981 at a Prabhadevi petrol pump by Manya Surve and Pathan gang plotters, triggering Mumbai's gang war.
Shaggy defense
Shaggy defense: informal legal term for categorical denial ("it wasn't me") despite overwhelming evidence, from Shaggy's 2000 song; coined by Slate's Josh Levin for R. Kelly's 2008 child-pornography trial defense.
Shakti Mills gang rape
Shakti Mills gang rape: 22 August 2013 assault of a 22-year-old photojournalist by five men in Mumbai's abandoned Shakti Mills compound; rapid arrests, first Section 376E death sentences, commuted to life by Bombay High Court in 2021.
Shalom Nagar (שלום נגר)
Shalom Nagar (שלום נגר), Yemenite-born Israeli prison guard who hanged Adolf Eichmann on June 1, 1962, Israel's only judicial execution; identity kept secret for about thirty years before his 2004 interview; died 2024.
Shanghaiing
Shanghaiing was the practice of kidnapping men, usually by drugging or trickery, to serve aboard merchant ships; crimps sold them to captains for a fee called blood money.
Sharon Kinne
Sharon Kinne (Diedra Glabus, La Pistolera) was an American woman tried in three 1960s killings in Missouri and Mexico who escaped a Mexican prison in 1969 and was confirmed in 2025 to have died in Alberta, Canada in 2022.
Shaun Attwood
Shaun Attwood, aka English Shaun, is a British ex-Ecstasy trafficker from Widnes who became an Arizona stockbroker-millionaire, served almost six years after a 2002 arrest, wrote Jon's Jail Journal and Hard Time, and is now a true-crime YouTuber banned from the US.
Shawn Grate
Shawn Grate, Ohio serial killer arrested in 2016 after a captive woman's 911 call; convicted of murdering Elizabeth Griffin, Stacey Stanley, Rebekah Leicy, Candace Cunningham, and Dana Lowrey; sentenced to death.
Shawn Merriman (fraudster)
Shawn Richard Merriman, the "Mormon Madoff," ran a $20 million Ponzi scheme through Market Street Advisors in Aurora, Colorado, from 1994 to 2009, defrauding 67 investors; he received 151 months in prison.
Sheena Bora murder case
Sheena Bora murder case: 2012 alleged killing of 24-year-old Mumbai executive Sheena Bora by her mother Indrani Mukerjea, with Sanjeev Khanna and driver Shyamvar Rai; surfaced in 2015, investigated by the CBI, trial still ongoing.
Sheila LaBarre
Sheila LaBarre, born Sheila Kaye Bailey in 1958, is a New Hampshire murderer serving life without parole for killing Kenneth Countie and Michael Deloge at her Epping horse farm; her 2008 insanity defense failed and her appeal was affirmed in 2010.
Sherri Papini kidnapping hoax
Sherri Papini kidnapping hoax: 2016 staged disappearance of a Redding, California woman, also known as the Perfect Wife case. She hid with ex-boyfriend James Reyes for 22 days, claimed two Hispanic women abducted her, and was sentenced in 2022 to 18 months for mail fraud and false statements.
Shomrim (שומרים) (neighborhood watch group)
Shomrim (שומרים, "guardians") are volunteer neighborhood watch groups patrolling Orthodox Jewish communities in New York, London, Baltimore, and Toronto; first patrols founded in 1970s New York, with Williamsburg Shomrim founded 1977 by Rabbi Moshe Huffman.
Shooting of Daniel Shaver
The shooting of Daniel Shaver, also known as the killing of Daniel Shaver, was the 2016 fatal police shooting of an unarmed 26-year-old Texan by an officer in Mesa, Arizona.
Shooting of David Ortiz
Shooting of David Ortiz: June 9, 2019 attack at Dial Bar and Lounge, Santo Domingo, that wounded the retired Red Sox slugger and Jhoel López; officially a mistaken-identity hit, later linked by a private investigation to Cesar Peralta.