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What constitutes #MeToo? Everything.

Stealthing, biting, rough sex, coercive sex, negging, gaslighting, grooming: if you haven't already, learn about these terms. Because if it's happened to you, you have every right to say #MeToo

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India's #MeToo movement has engulfed Bollywood figures, a government minister and several comedians and top journalists. Pic/Gettyimages

India's #MeToo movement has engulfed Bollywood figures, a government minister and several comedians and top journalists. Pic/Gettyimages

On October 10, freelance content creator and actor Shrutee Choudhary spoke out against the co-founder of Terribly Tiny Tales, Chintan Ruparel, and accused him of biting during sex, so hard that she was bruised all over ("My arm had a bruise the size of a face"), negging, gaslighting and grooming.

Here's the glossary for that: negging, the practice of making insulting comments to someone you find attractive in order to make them take an interest in you; gaslighting, manipulating someone into doubting their own sanity; and grooming, drawing a victim into a sexual relation and maintaining that relationship in secrecy. There's also stealthing, removing a condom during sex without the consent of the partner; and sexual coercion, being worn down by someone who repeatedly asks for sex.
This isn't rape, or molestation or bad touch. These practices aren't even illegal. This is something much more nuanced: it's consent changing its mind.

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