Key Takeaways

KEY TAKEAWAYS

• Sexual aggression can involve several types of behavior where force, coercion or positions of power are used to sexually abuse or exploit another person. • Sexual harassment usually involves supervisors or other authority figures and one or more persons who are subjected to sexual talk, forced sexual acts, or sexual denigration. • Sexual assault usually involves some type of sexual contact that may or may not be associated with penetration. • Rape usually involves sexual penetration of some sort. The incidence is higher among people who know each other rather than strangers. • Child sexual abuse can involve sexual acts, exposing oneself to a child, sharing pornography with a child, or using a child as a subject of child pornography or prostitution. • There are many short-term and long-term psychological and physical effects of child sexual abuse.