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SMN: Who Are The Real "Groomers"?

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The Grooming and Anti-LGBTQ Crowd

The term "grooming" was first used in the 1200s to describe a night's squire. It started getting applied to people in the mid 1800s, meaning taking care of a person's appearance or preparing someone for a role. In the 1980s, grooming was used in the context of child psychology as a specific term to describe befriending or influencing a child in order to later sexually abuse them.

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