Title: Defining Sexual Consent: An Educational Guide | Priority STD
Headings: Guide to Defining Sexual Consent and Preventing Sexual Assault
Guide to Defining Sexual Consent and Preventing Sexual Assault
The Definition of Consent
When Is Sexual Activity Consensual?
Is There an Age of Consent in the US?
Is Silence Consent?
What You Should Know about Consensual Sex
The Definition of Sexual Assault
What is the Definition of Rape?
What is Sexual Harassment?
What is Sexual Abuse?
Sexual Assault Facts
What You Should Know about Preventing Sexual Assault
Identify Risk Factors
Personal Prevention
Societal Norms
Teach
Opportunities
Protective
Support Victims
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Content: Discussing sexual relations/stories/fantasies at work, school, or in other inappropriate places; Feeling pressured to engage with someone sexually; Exposing oneself or performing sexual acts on oneself; Unwanted sexually explicit photos, emails, or text messages. These actions can come from managers, coworkers, colleagues, peers, teachers, and anyone you engage throughout your day-to-day life. What is Sexual Abuse? The American Psychological Association defines sexual abuse as “unwanted sexual activity, with perpetrators using force, making threats or taking advantage of victims not able to give consent.” They also note that most victims and perpetrators know each other. Child sexual abuse, also called child molestation, describes acts committed against minors. Marshall University’s Women’s Center explains that the abuse “can be physical, verbal or emotional and includes such acts as sexual touching, exposing the child to pornography, taking pornographic pictures of the child, ‘peeping’ at the child, exposing oneself to a child, and attempting/performing oral, anal, or vaginal penetration.”