In our exploration of coercive control, we have dismantled the prisons built with words, money, and physical force. Now, we turn to two forms of abuse that weaponise the very tools meant to connect and uplift us: our technology and our beliefs. Digital abuse and spiritual abuse represent the sinister adaptation of coercive control into the modern age and its invasion into our most sacred inner spaces.

In our journey to understand coercive control, we have explored the invisible prisons of emotional, psychological, and financial abuse. Now, we must confront the forms of abuse that make the threat of control terrifyingly tangible: physical and sexual coercion. These acts represent the ultimate violation of personal autonomy, using the body itself as a battleground to enforce dominance and shatter a person’s fundamental sense of safety.