Because of this, I wanted to include a brief section on abuse, stress, and trauma. Abuse may be more common in some of these groups, as well as more commonly perpetrated by people from some groups, but anyone can abuse, and anyone can be abused. A simplistic definition of abuse would be any action that is done to someone without their full, informed consent. I call this simplistic in part because it fails to define what constitutes consent. Generally speaking, abuse is harmful.
Sexual abuse is sexual actions done without one's partner's consent.
This ranges from feeling someone up without their consent to sexual intercourse. Sexual abuse is often combined with physical abuse, as in violent rape. Some people believe that all sexual contact with children is automatically sexual abuse. Sexual contact between two relatives is incest and is a form of sexual abuse in some cases, such as a parent and its child. Consistently telling someone that they are worthless is emotional abuse, for example.