Sexual assault is any forced, unwanted, coerced sexual contact. Different types of violence can be included in sexual assault.
Sexual Assault can include, but is not limited to:
- Rape (Sexual intercourse or pentation without consent)
- Attempted rape
- Incest (Sexual contact with a family member)
- Child sexual abuse
- Unwanted sexual touching
- Forcible object penetration (penetrating someone’s vagina or anus, or causing that person to penetrate her or himself, against that person’s will)
- Human sex trafficking
- Sexual assaults with intimate partner (Includes martial rape)
- Sexual harassments
*Sexual assault is not limited to these behaviors only. Sexual assault is never the victim’s fault.
*Consent is a verbal agreement between two partners to engage in sexual activity. Consent cannot be given by individuals who are underage, intoxicated, asleep, incapacitated by drugs or alcohol, or unconscious.