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What is the difference between rape and sexual assault ?Feel free to just provide example sentences.
What is the difference between rape and sexual assault ?Feel free to just provide example sentences.
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Rape is a type of "sexual assault" usually involving sexual intercourse or other forms of sexual penetration without consent.
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@Kross9182: rape is a more blunt and emotional word. sexual assault is the word you would hear from the police, judge, statistics etc.
they are interchangeable for the most part but in my opinion "rape" is very strong and straightforward while "sexual assault" feels more formal and official. however like i said they are interchangeable and you can use whichever one you feel more comfortable saying.
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rape is when the act of sex happens without consent (forced) of one person involved
sexual assault can be the act of any unwanted sexual attention
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sexual assault is any type of sexual contact or behavior that occurs without the consent of the recipient. (harassment, child molestation, rape etc..)
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@JenJenOvO: good answer also. i just want to mention that some people dont differentiate between what defines rape or sexual assault...as @Kross9182: can probably imagine it is a very complicated issue where people have alot of different reasons for using one word or the other and may also define them in their own way. hope that makes sense.
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They can mean the same thing but sexual assault can be short of forced intercourse where rape usually implies forced intercourse.
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they can mean the same thing but "sexual assault " can be applied to other categories like (rape, inappropriate touching etc.... "any force sexual contact"
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to make it easy
"rape" is a type of sexual assault
and "sexual assault" is a variety of force sexual contact
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