Title: Community Against Violence
Headings: Different Types of Violence
Different Types of Violence
Domestic Violence
Sexual Violence (Assault/Abuse)
Child Abuse
Youth & Dating Violence
Stalking
Elder Abuse
Technology-Assisted Abuse

Content: destruction of pets and property; and forcing isolation from family, friends, or school and/or work. Sexual Violence (Assault/Abuse)
Sexual Violence is any sexual behavior a person has not consented to that causes that person to feel uncomfortable, frightened or intimidated is included in the sexual assault category. Physical sexual assault occurs when someone touches any part of another person’s body in a sexual way, even through clothes, without that person’s consent, including but not limited to forced sexual intercourse (rape), sodomy (oral or anal sexual acts), child molestation, incest, fondling and attempted rape. The law generally assumes that a person does not consent to sexual conduct if he or she is forced, threatened or is unconscious, drugged, a minor, developmentally disabled, chronically mentally ill, or believe they are undergoing a medical procedure. Some examples of sexual assault include: Someone putting their finger, tongue, mouth, penis or an object in or on your vagina, penis or anus when you don’t want them to; Someone touching, fondling, kissing or making any unwanted contact with your body; Someone forcing you to perform oral sex or forcing you to receive oral sex; Someone forcing you to masturbate, forcing you to masturbate them, or fondling and touching you;