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Sexual abuse refers to forced or coerced sexual behavior, often within a trusting relationship. Victims frequently know their perpetrators. As children cannot consent to sexual contact with adults or older youth, any sexual relations with children are considered abusive.
Common Types of Sexual Abuse / Assault
Child Sexual Abuse - The sexual abuse of children by adults or by older children or peers.
Incest - The most common form of child sexual abuse. Sexual abuse of children by family members (including extended family, e.g. uncles, cousins).
Molestation - Sexual abuse involving sexual stimulation to body and genital areas, including penetration.
Stranger Rape - Non consensual penetration (oral, anal, and vaginal).
Date or Acquaintance Rape - Non consensual penetration, not necessarily violent perpetrated by someone known to the victim, often a peer in a trusted social relationship.
Marital Rape - Non consensual penetration perpetrated by one spouse on the other.
Exhibitionism or Exposure - Displaying parts of the naked body in an effort to shock, intimidate.
Voyeurism - Invasion of a victim's privacy either secretively or openly with the intent of gaining sexual gratification.
Obscene Phone Calls - Invasion of a victim's privacy with sexually suggestive messages.
Sadistic Sexual Abuse - Sexual abuse in which the offender incites or tries to incite reactions of dread, horror, or pain in the victim as a means of increasing the offender's sexual pleasure.
Sexual Exploitation - Objectification and use of victims, by means of sexual activity or photographic imagery, to gain money or sexual gratification.
Sexual Harassment - Use of gender, status, and power differences to intimidate or control a victim.
Gay Bashing - Verbal or physical attacks directed against homosexuals.
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Editor: Karene Jade Howie
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