Stop Sextortion: Get Help is a Resistance Directory resource for digital safety, survivor support, and online abuse response.
Stop Sextortion is an educational and support resource associated with Thorn that helps young people and others recognize and respond to sextortion. Sextortion involves threats to expose sexual or intimate images in order to demand money, additional images, sexual activity, or another form of compliance.
The Get Help resource provides practical response guidance. It encourages people to stop engaging with the person making threats, avoid paying or complying with demands, tell someone they trust, preserve messages and other evidence, report abusive accounts or content, and strengthen account security.
The site also points users toward established reporting and support resources, including services for reporting child sexual exploitation and tools intended to help limit the spread of intimate images. Its materials are written to make it easier for young people, friends, caregivers, and educators to understand sextortion and respond without increasing shame.
For the Resistance Directory, Stop Sextortion is an important survivor support and digital safety resource for young people, families, educators, advocates, and anyone helping someone respond to sexual blackmail or image based abuse.
Key Features
Step by step sextortion response guidance; evidence preservation information; platform reporting guidance; youth safety resources; crisis and reporting referrals; account security guidance; resources for friends, caregivers, and educators.
Best For
Young people experiencing sextortion, friends supporting a victim, parents and caregivers, educators, youth advocates, and people seeking clear first response information about sexual blackmail.
Explore Stop Sextortion: Get Help
Visit the official Stop Sextortion: Get Help website for current information, services, eligibility, contact options, and safety guidance.