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Commentary Grooming and Seduction Park Dietz' Mend or Interpenorol ',mange 291$. Vol 3310 ae-36 ©The Authors) 3011 Monett and preemie,. saved tomneumaisPennoteonsnw 001. 10.1177/10362605177,000 1ourrals.sageph tornlionsier Abstract Ken Lanning's recollections of the origins of the use of the term "grooming" to refer to techniques used by acquaintances to gain sexual access to and control over children is an important contribution to the history of the significant recognition that many cases of child sexual abuse occur ac the hands of offenders who are acquaintances of the child and who do not need to use force, dream, or violence to gain the compliance of their victims. That this recognition was slow in coming is obvious in retrospect. as is true of any social problem that remains hidden for centuries only to burst into public consciousness over the course of a few years. In this article. I report the results of searches using Google Scholar to look at the introduc