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sexual assault
Sign in to saveAlso known as nonconsensual sexual act, nonconsensual sexual contact, SA
act of coercing or physically forcing a person to engage in sexual activity
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- Subclass of
- Sexual intercourse
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- health specialty
- emergency medicine
- Commons category
- Sexual abuse
- partially coincident with
- sexual abuse
- on focus list of Wikimedia project
- Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
- described by source
- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
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Encyclopedic overview
Sexual assault (SA) is an act of sexual abuse in which one intentionally sexually touches another person without that person's consent, or coerces or physically forces a person to engage in a sexual act against their will. It is a form of sexual violence that includes child sexual abuse, groping (forcing unsolicited, sexualized touching onto another person), rape (forced sexual penetration, no matter how slight), forced kissing, drug facilitated sexual assault, or the torture of the person in a sexual manner often with nudity as a precursor.
Definition
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “sexual assault” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.