lets all talk about nico di angelo getting groomed by minos more ok? without emo jokes preferably
hot take: grooming ≠ manipulating.
??? clearly both is happening though. knowing damn well that minos needed him to kill daedalus, etc. if we had to talk about a specific type of grooming it was criminal grooming for example. he was literally exploiting nico 😭😭
dude let’s not be dumb as hell and argue with someone who actually took classes in criminology. grooming is oftentimes done for sexual purposes yes but there are many ways to groom someone and many reasons to do so too. Yes, many sources will talk solely about sexual grooming, but if you look further you’ll find that is not the only case. it is to prepare someone to exploit them (which is not always sexual)
source: https://www.met.police.uk/advice/advice-and-information/gr/grooming/
source: https://learning.nspcc.org.uk/safeguarding-child-protection/grooming
source: https://notinourcommunity.org/child-exploitation/
source: https://www.safeguardingservices.com.au/resources/
of course theres different international laws about recognition etc etc but let’s not look in the dictionary for sensitive topics like this
