Sexual Assault

Sexual assault is the legal term for rape.

• Sexual assault includes vaginal, oral, or anal sex without the victim's consent or with a victim who is unable to consent.
  
  
• There are other forms of sexual violence as well.
  
  
• Sexual assault is always against your will.
  
  
• No means no; silence means no; maybe means no.
  
  
• If somebody is too drunk to say no, or too disabled to say no, or too young to say no, that also means no.
  
  
• The only thing that means yes is yes -- providing that the person saying yes is at the age of consent.
  
  
• Teens especially need to know that you have the right to change your mind about having sex - even after it has begun.

For more information on laws about sexual assault, please see the
Law & Legislation section.