CAAGe: The Campaign Against Adult Grooming

CAAGE - the Campaign Against Adult Grooming

Basic

Raising awareness of adult grooming

Intermediate

Helping protect people from adult grooming

Advanced

Help victims of adult grooming find solace, help and support.

  • Hidden face

    What is adult grooming

    We use the word ‘grooming’ really loosely. But when we get to it’s essence - deceit and manipulation - it becomes easier to understand. CAAGE takes a look: What is adult grooming

  • "Ask for help"

    Life after adult grooming

    Being groomed steals parts of your life.

    Let’s help you get back on a good path for you.

    Life after Grooming

  • Mask

    Adult grooming predators

    Adult groomers don’t necessarily know they’re groomers.

    And certain industries and professions attract them.

    CAAGe takes a deep dive look at some of the unexpected (and expected!) places you’ll find them

    Grooming Predators

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CAAGe (The Campaign Against Adult Grooming) has been undertaking anonymous research with victims of adult grooming.

If you have been groomed, please do contribute to help increase our understanding of adult grooming and its effects.

CAAGe: Practical help for common issues

  • Legal gavel

    How to: legal support

    CAAGe is currently working to partner for legal support. In the meantime, here are suggestions to help the search for lehgal support

  • Doctor's instruments

    How to: sexual health checks

    How to get testing for your sexual health after grooming.

  • Houses of Parliament

    How to: write to your MP

    Writing to your MP can make a difference.

  • "Mental Health"

    How to: Get mental health support

    Being groomed, as well whatever activity the target’s groomer subjects them to, can be incredibly damaging to people’s mental health. CAAGe take a look at how to access help and support, and to identify the signs of potential problems in order to get them sorted soonest.

  • Cartoon police

    How to: the police

    Involving the police in grooming cases, including reporting and appealing.

  • Signposts

    How to: Avoid Adult Grooming

    We can’t avoid being targetted, but we can keep our eyes open for the signs.

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    How to: spot the signs of adult grooming

    Am I, someone I know or someone I’m aware of, a grooming victim - now or in the past?

The CAAGe website has been created to provide information and education about how and why adults are groomed, and what to do about it. It cannot and should not replace individual professional advice such as doctors or legal professionals, and is here to help you decide what help you need and to be able to access it more easily.

Everyone is different and different approaches, treatments and support will help different people at different times on their ‘journey’, coping with having been groomed, identifying adult grooming, or understanding it.

Individuals respond differently to different professionals, different treatments, different approaches, so do what’s right for YOU according to YOUR situation. CAAGe is here to help you identify what those things might be, not to recommend any fixed approach. We sincerely hope that you’ll find something useful in these pages.

Claire Thompson, CEO and Lead Campaigner

Adult Grooming: CAAGe (the Campaign Against Adult Grooming) shares information found along the way!

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    CAAGe Media Reviews

    Books, films, articles related to grooming with appropriate assessments or roundups.

    Coming soon - please contact CAAGe if you have reviews to add or things we should be reviewing.

  • Dating sites

    The role of dating sites in perpetuating adult grooming

SPOTLIGHT: Modern Day Slavery

  • "Slavery still exists"

    Modern Day Slavery

    Slavery and servitude: grooming’s role

  • "For hire"

    Sexual Exploitation and Prostitution of Others

    Grooming’s role in prostitution

  • Protestors: "Human Trafficking Happens Here"

    Human Trafficking

    Grooming’s role in human trafficking.

  • Fingernails

    Forced labour or services

    Grooming - when that job isn’t what was expected….

  • Model of a heart

    Organ removal

    Groomed for the removal of organs

  • Wedding rings

    Forced Marriage

    Groomed into a forced marriage

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Cathy Burnham Martin

Liars are highly unlikely to admit their lies, never mind apologize for the hurt they’ve caused. Liars don’t genuinely apologise. Deceit has become their full-out lifestyle. They are centred on themselves with no thoughts of the consequences of their lies. In cowardly style, they tell more lies to try and cover their tracks. They are not good at admitting they actually have shortcomings.