Chances are that every person will feel the impact of this experience either through personal experience, or through family or friends. By learning more about this subject we can be better prepared to support victims of sexual assault. Sexual Assault is when you are forced, tricked, or confused into touching parts of another person or letting them touch you when you don't want to. Sexual assault is also when someone is forced or tricked into sexual contact. It includes rape, incest, fondling, obscene phone calls, pornographic pictures of children, child prostitution, etc.
Rape is when a person forces or tricks another into sexual intercourse.
Rape can be vaginally, orally, or anally. Acquaintance Rape is when the offender is known to the victim and perhaps even a friend or date. Incest is perhaps the most difficult for victims of sexual abuse to recognize. Because nobody talks about it, we are not aware of how common incest is. It can happen in any family.