Definition: Sexual Assault is any unwanted sexual activity that one person forces upon another. Any kind of sexual contact without both people fully agreeing to it – from unwanted touching to intercourse – is sexual assault. And it is against the law.

Here are some examples of sexual assault:

• Sexual invasions of space: obscene phone calls, sexual harassment, looks/leers, catcalls, jokes
• Unwanted physical touch: grabbing, brushing against body, patting, pinching
• Unwanted sexual touch: fondling of breasts and genitals, molestation, forcing someone to perform sexual touch
• Non-violent rape: sexual intercourse against a person’s will without physical violence or force, using drugs or alcohol to impair a person’s judgment, using power, age status or verbal threats to keep a person quiet, showing weapons to scare a person, using one’s own body weight to overpower someone.
• Violent rape: sexual intercourse against a person’s will using physical violence or force. Using one’s body to do violence beating, strangling, choking, punching, kicking. Using weapons to do violence – slashing, cutting with knives, beating with other weapons, wounding or killing with gunshots.