By Richard Horgan Los Angeles (Knewz) — A study of 2,000 Americans found that 4.5 percent of the men and 2.3 percent of the women experienced “sextortion” since the COVID-19 pandemic began. Sextortion is the crime of threatening to expose or distribute sexually explicit materials unless a person or persons depicted in the materials complies with certain demands, usually wanting money. While the findings of the study were contrary to the initial hypothesis, the authors of the report – a trio of professors at Florida International University, Washington D.C.’s American University and Clark Unive…