Sexual violence definition

Sexual violence means any conduct of a sexual nature or act targeting an individual’s sexuality, gender identity or gender expression that is committed, threatened or attempted against an individual without the individual’s consent and includes sexual assault, sexual harassment, stalking, indecent exposure, voyeurism, sexual exploitation and sexual solicitation, and may include an act that occurs online or in the context of domestic or intimate partner relationships.

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Sexual violence means any sexual act or act targeting a person’s sexuality, gender identity or gender expression, whether the act is physical or psychological in nature, that is committed, threatened or attempted against a person without the person’s consent. It includes sexual assault, sexual harassment, stalking, indecent exposure, voyeurism and sexual exploitation. For further clarity, sexual assault includes rape.

Sexual violence means physical sexual acts perpetrated against a person’s will or where a person is incapable of giving consent. A person may be incapable of giving consent due to age, drug or alcohol use, or an intellectual or other disability. Sexual violence includes, but is not limited to, acts such as rape, sexual assault, sexual battery and sexual coercion. All such acts of sexual violence are forms of sexual harassment.

Examples of Sexual violence in a sentence

• Sexual violence is any sexual act or act targeting a person’s sexuality, gender identity or gender expression that is committed, threatened or attempted against a person without the person’s consent.

• Sexual violence is handled separately because of its potential criminal nature.

• Sexual violence committed by offenders against offenders encompasses: abusive sexual contact, non-consensual sex acts, and sexual harassment by an offender.

• Sexual violence includes rape (forced oral, vaginal or anal penetration with a penis), sexual assault by penetration (forced oral, vaginal or anal penetration with an object), forced sexual acts and forced sex with others, forced prostitution and pornography, cutting or disfiguring of genitalia, refusal to practice safe sex and refusal to adhere to religious prohibitions.

• Sexual violence means physical or sexual acts perpetrated against a person’s will or where a person in incapable of giving consent due to the victim’s use of drugs or alcohol.

More Definitions of Sexual violence

Sexual violence. (“trais rhywiol”) means sexual exploitation, sexual harassment, or threats of violence of a sexual nature;

Sexual violence means any physical sexual acts perpetrated against a person’s will or where a person is incapable of giving consent due to the victim’s use of drugs or alcohol. An individual also may be unable to give consent due to minority/or an intellectual or other disability. A number of different acts fall into the category of sexual violence, including rape, sexual assault, sexual battery, and sexual coercion. All such acts of sexual violence are forms of sexual harassment.

Sexual violence means conduct or acts contemplated in the definitions of “sexual conduct” and “explicit sexual conduct” that are accompanied either by force or coercion, actual or threatened, or that induces fear or psychological trauma in a victim;

Sexual violence means physical sexual acts perpetrated without consent. Sexual violence includes but is not limited to sexual harassment, sexual coercion, and sexual assault.

Sexual violence means any violence, physical or psychological, carried out through sexual means or by targeting sexuality. This includes, but is not limited to sexual assault, sexual harassment, stalking, indecent exposure, voyeurism, degrading sexual imagery, distribution of sexual images or video of a Member without their consent, and cyber harassment or cyber stalking of a sexual nature or related to a Member’s sexual orientation, gender identity or presentation;

Sexual violence means any sexual act or act targeting a person's sexuality, gender identity or gender expression, whether the act is physical or psychological in nature, that is committed, threatened or attempted against a person without the person's consent, and includes, but is not limited to, Sexual Assault, Sexual Harassment, stalking, indecent exposure, voyeurism and sexual exploitation. Sexual Violence can occur in many contexts, including in person, in writing, online, on social media, through digital communication or via other technology.

Sexual violence means physical acts perpetrated against a person’s will or where a person is incapable of giving consent, including, but not limited to, rape, sexual battery, and sexual coercion. Any incident meeting this definition is considered a crime for the purposes of Clery Act reporting.