About Sexual Assault
Sexual abuse is any non-consenting sexual act or behavior. It is not just forced sexual contact. Sexual abuse, in its many forms, demeans and humiliates, making one feel shameful and exposed, particularly with regards to one's sexuality. Following are examples:
* Made demeaning remarks about partners body or body parts
* Minimized partner's feelings about sex
* Berated partner about her sexual history, possibly including blaming partner for having experienced child sexual abuse or rape
* Jealousy and anger associated with the assumption that partner would be sexual with any available man or woman.
* Sexual name calling (slut, whore, etc)
* Told sexist or homophobic jokes and/or made demeaning sexual remarks about lesbians (in relation to women as a whole)
* Withheld sexual affection from partner
* Had sex with partner when she was asleep, drunk, high, or otherwise incapacitated or
diminished in her capacity to consent
* Openly showed sexual interest in other women while at home or in public
* Had affairs with other women (or men) and flaunted them after agreeing to be in a monogamous relationship
* Made demeaning remarks about partner's dress or insisted that partner dress in more
sexual ways then she is comfortable
* Insisted on touching partner sexually when she did not want to be touched, or forced
her to strip when alone or in the presence of others
* Forced particular unwanted sexual behaviors
* Forced partner to watch or have sex with others
* Forced partner to pose for sexual photographs or pornography
* Forced partner to engage in sex
* Coerced partner into having sex after an abusive incident
* Forced partner to have sex when she was sick or when sex endangered her health
* Forced sex with objects or weapons
* Sadistic sexual acts (things that hurt)
* Forced partner to have sexual contact with animals
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