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WHAT IS SEXUAL ABUSE?
Sexual abuse is not just forced intercourse. All forms of coerced sexual
contact or exploitation constitute abuse. You have been sexually abused
or harassed if a person has done any of the following to you:
- Told anti-women jokes or said bad things of a sexual nature about
women.
- Treated women as sex objects.
- Acted like he or she owns you.
- Accused you of being sexual with others.
- Insisted that you dress more sexually than you wanted or criticized
how you dress
- Said bad things about your body.
- Put down your feelings about sex.
- Criticized your sexual past; blamed you if you had been sexually
abused in the past or as a child.
- Criticized you sexually (for example called you frigid or cold).
- Insisted on touching you sexually when you did not want to be touched
- either when you two were alone or with other people.
- Forced you to mimic or watch pornography
- Called you a whore or a slut.
- Withheld or made you beg for sexual affection.
- Made you strip when you did not want to - when you two were alone
or when others were around.
- Openly showed sexual interest in other people when you were in public
or at home (for example while watching TV).
- Had affairs (often bragging about it) after agreeing not to have sex
with anyone else.
- Forced you to have sex.
- Made you have sex with other people.
- Forced you into prostitution.
- Forced you to make pornographic films.
- Made you watch other people having sex.
- Made you perform sexual acts you did not want to.
- Forced you to have sex after physically or emotionally abusing you.
- Forced sex when you were sick or when it was unsafe for health reasons.
- Hurt you with objects or weapons while having sex.
- Committed cruel sexual acts.
- Made you pose for sexual photographs.
- Made you have sex with animals.
- Sexually abused you as a child.
- Raped you.
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