Sexual assaults are acts of violence where sex is used as the weapon.
Assaults are motivated out of a need to feel powerful by controlling, dominating, or humiliating the victim. Sexual assaults on college and university campuses occur at an alarming rate. Additionally, alcohol and drugs as well as gendered communication may be factors in these sexual assaults. A National Shame Recent statistics show that rape is still all too prevalent in America. Somewhere in America, a woman is sexually assaulted every 2 minutes, according to the U.S. Department of Justice.