Most sexual offenders don't look peculiar or act strangely. They may be less stable and more aggressive than most people, and they may dislike women. In reality, people who sexually assault are not always strangers to their victims. In more than one-third of reported cases, the rapist is an acquaintance, neighbor, friend, or relative. Although sexual conduct is a component of this crime, suspects mainly want to hurt, humiliate and degrade another human being.
Some people have the wrong idea about sexual assault.
These ideas assume that sexual assault is a sexual crime - a crime that is motivated by desire. It is a violent crime, a hostile attack, to hurt and humiliate. Sex is only the weapon. Sexual assault is a felony. Simply defined, it is sexual intercourse, achieved or attempted without the victim's consent, and with the use or threat of force.