Yes. While some states have replaced the word “rape” with “sexual assault” in their law books, the two terms are distinct in California. Here, sexual assault is an umbrella term for a type of crime that involves the unwanted touching of another person in their breasts, genitals, anus, groin, or buttocks. Rape, sexual battery, forced oral copulation, forcible penetration with a foreign object, and illegal sodomy are different types of sexual assault that involve physical penetration.