Child grooming is as easy as searching “How To Groom a Child” in Google and without clicking any links Google displays “Grooming steps include” then a list of 8 steps.

This type of child sexual molestation is seen in the gay community, though not talked about enough. JordanRiver Michaels created this assemblage work as a public service announcement to America to bring awareness to the topic.

Isolated white-washed nude male dolls, packaged and hung on a commercial stand. Displaying the concept of how predators choose to “shop” for their victims, viewing adolescents as an objects with no personality or uniqueness. Then spending months and even years creating a relationship with that child and becoming a trusted person in their life. Only to brainwash them into a sexual relationship where the child sees no wrong, due to the high trust created by the predator. Over all “controlling the relationship”. This work is made to bring new questions and educated views of child grooming. Most of the time child grooming cases end in rape and or abuse. These cases are the least to be reported and affect the child's development altering their brain and causing mental illness such as PTSD, anxiety, depression, and difficulty with sexual and nonsexual relations.

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