How to detect sexual violence?
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You are suffering from sexual violence when you experience any of the following situations:
- You receive comments about your body or which are sexually offensive in their nature.
- You get sexually offensive gestures directed at you.
- You receive unwanted sexual messages via social media, e-mail, mobile phone or in writing.
- You receive sexist insults via social media, e-mail, mobile phone or in writing.
- You are threatened or coerced into publishing personal photos or videos with sexual content.
- Some others publish your personal photos or videos with sexual content, without your consent.
- Some others get too close, brush against you or touch you against your will in a sexual sense, without physical violence or intimidation.
- Some others get too close, brush against you or touch you against your will in a sexual sense, with threats, intimidation or physical violence.
- You are threatened with retaliation at work or at an educational centre (sackings, exam failures etc.) if you do not accept sexual proposals.
- You receive insinuations and offers of personal gains (at work, in education etc.) in exchange for sexual favours.
- Indecent exposure in your presence.
- Some others try to oblige you or they oblige you to perform a sexual act (oral, anal or vaginal).
- You are subject to genital mutilation or you have been subject to it in your childhood.
- Some others forced you into an arranged marriage against your will.
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