An ongoing economic and financial meltdown, the COVID-19 pandemic, and the August 4, 2020 explosion of Beirut Port-since 2019, Lebanon has been assailed by a spiralling confluence of mutually exacerbating crises. The present-day poverty, hunger, and unemployment levels are coeval with an extraordinary rise of similarly hyper-endemic sextortion cases. While drawing on its author's experience of sexual blackmail in Lebanon, this article narrates the various parameters of this pathology and its trauma-its perpetrators, progression, and victims-in relation to several documented instances of this illness, including three excerpts from my students' memoirs (2020-2023). The resulting 'pathography' reveals sexual blackmail in Lebanon as a nuanced corollary of not only socioeconomic tensions, but also sex stigma. In a context where societal attitudes to sexuality remain, to a significant extent, regressive, being sexually active, regardless of sexual orientation, incurs a status quo of shaming and silencing that most affects the sexual and mental health of the country's vulnerable groups: youth, particularly women, and queer individuals more generally.