Aside from dealing in and committing the standard acts of violence or intimidation, the Borg are unique in their method of the conquer of other races. They don't just invade and destroy the enemy (indeed, an enemy is a tech source to be acquired), but tempt and seduce others to join their cyborg existence. While it's true the assimilation process into making an individual into an obedient drone isn't clearly understood, there is more than a sense that seduction is somehow involved.
In Star Trek: First Contact, the Borg Queen tells Captain Picard, "You can't begin to imagine the life you denied yourself." This is no violent threat, nor promise of a holocaust kind of retribution. It's clearly an admission from the Borg leader herself that Jean-Luc Picard would have experienced an existence far removed from his known human perceptions. Would that referenced experience have included an elevated kind of sexuality as is promised and then even shown to Data during the Queen's interrogation of him? Only Locutus knows...
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