Sexual abuse by a partner/intimate can include:

• Sexual insults or taunting, calling you sexual names
• Insisting on sexual acts which make you feel degraded or humiliated
• Using pressure, threats or violence to make you take part in sex
• Deliberately causing unwanted physical pain during sex
• Forcing you to have sex after a physical assault
• Using objects, toys, or other items without consent and to cause pain or humiliation
• Sexual acts when you can’t consent because sleeping or drunk
• Tying you up or other bondage/S&M when you haven’t willingly agreed or ignoring agreed limits or safe words if you have
• Refusal to use contraception
• Deliberately passing on sexual diseases or infections
• Forcing you to watch pornography
• Forcing you to have sex with other people
• Forcing you to work as a prostitute

Sexual assault and rape are crimes, even if you are married or in a relationship with the abuser. You have the right to say no to anything you feel uncomfortable with or to stop during sex

Information on Consent

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