Sexual Assault: College Campuses Sexual abuse, also referred to as molestation, is forcing undesired sexual behavior by one person upon another. When that force is immediate or short duration, or frequent, it is called sexual assault. The offender is referred to as a sexual abuser or (often pejoratively) molester. That definition should mean the same thing to everyone. No means no. But not everyone understands that definition. Sexual abuse happens all the time. Sexual abuse does not only happen to females; male sexual abuse happens also. Most people look past the fact that it happens to males too because females are shorter, weaker, not “capable.” People do not pay enough attention to this because they do not think it could happen to them, …show more content…
Nothing sexual should ever happen without consent. Some people might think it is acceptable to have sexual contact with someone because they did not say anything. If a person is not able to say yes or no to sexual contact that is no. No words equals no for an answer. For example, if two people were out at a party and one of the two gets too intoxicated and needs to be laid down, the other person cannot think it is respectable to start sexual activity. Just because two people are in a relationship does not give one person the green light to do anything. Even in relationships there needs to be consent. Both of the people in the relationship need to know the limits of the other person and when they say no it means no. If two people, at one point, had sexual activity together, it does not mean it is a yes every time. Someone could change their mind about someone else and not want to engage in anymore sexual contact with this person. Just because sexual activity happened before with someone does not mean it is possible to happen again. Without consent no sexual activity should be happening, and if it does, that is sexual assault. It does not matter if things happened in the past between two people. If someone says no in the present time, it means no. Consent is a verbal yes, nothing