Sexual Assault

Sexual assault is any unwanted or forced sexual act, activity or behaviour. 

It can include anything sexual online or using a mobile phone. Sexual assault can include:

• touching any part of your body in a sexual way when you don’t want them to
• showing you their genitals or ‘flashing’
• watching you when you are naked or doing sexual things
• taking off a condom before or during sex without your permission
• posting sexual pictures of you on the internet when you don’t want them to
• making you watch or be in pornography (videos or photos of sex or sexual things)
• doing sexual things to you when you can’t make the kinds of choices you would normally make, including somebody coercing you. For example, when you:
  • are confused about what is happening or what you are agreeing to because of alcohol or drugs
  • feel pressured or manipulated
  • are asleep or have passed out or are unconscious
  • suffer a ‘freeze response’ and can’t move your body or talk
  • are too scared to resist for fear of being harmed
  • are outnumbered.

Sexual assault is a criminal offence in Australia.