Forms of Sexual Abuse

• Sexual conduct or misconduct, sexual abuse or molestation, sexual exploitation, sexual touching, sexualized interaction, sexual comments about a person's body, or other verbal or non-verbal behaviors that facilitated, contributed to, or led up to abuse, regardless of whether or not such behavior was itself sexual or against the law, and regardless of whether the victim thought the behavior was sexual abuse at the time.

• Sexual abuse includes behavior between two people without regard to whether such activity involved explicit force, whether such activity involved genital or other physical contact, and whether the victim associated the abuse with any physical, psychological, or emotional harm.

• Sexual abuse involves behaviors including penetration or fondling of the victim’s body, other body-on-body contact, or non-contact, behaviors such as observing or making images of a victim’s naked body, showing or making pornography, or forcing the victim to  behave in sexual behavior.

• Inappropriate touching

• Requesting personal sexual favors for "rewards"