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Kym Pasqualini, president of the National Center for Missing Adults, observed that media outlets tends to focus on "damsels in distress" – typically, affluent young white women and teenagers.
According to one version of the myth, the Nemean lion took women as hostages to its lair in a cave near Nemea, luring warriors from nearby towns to save the damsel in distress.