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title: "Our Bodies Ourselves Today Calls on Journalists and Public to Stop Using the Term \"Grooming\""
date: 2023-12-04T18:00:00-05:00
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[Media Coverage](/media-coverage)# Our Bodies Ourselves Today Calls on Journalists and Public to Stop Using the Term "Grooming"

Teen Vogue • August 9, 2022

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Invoking the terminology of child abuse to oppose education and LGBTQIA rights is dangerous. Our Bodies Ourselves Today joins over fifty organizations to call on journalists and the public to do better.

[Read the full article ](https://www.teenvogue.com/story/the-right-is-misusing-the-word-grooming-and-it-can-have-serious-consequences)

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