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Re:The impact of sexual abuse on female development: a longi... by drevil-v2 on Thursday January 13, 2022 @01:50PM (#29924913)
>> One in ten (11%) women students experienced a sexual assault in a postsecondary setting during the previous year. About one in five (19%) women who were sexually assaulted said that the assault took the form of a sexual activity to which they did not consent after they had agreed to another form of sexual activity—for example, agreeing to have protected sex and then learning it had been unprotected sex.

Is there a baseline for what constitutes sexual assault? Or is it entirely subjective?

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Re:The impact of sexual abuse on female development: a longi... by SamoyedFurFluff on Thursday January 13, 2022 @01:57PM (#29925028)
Generally sexual encounters in which there is not informed consent between participants is considered assault. Someone who consents to sex with contraception when the sex doesn’t have contraception isn’t an informed consenting party.
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Re:The impact of sexual abuse on female development: a longi... by sandworm101 on Thursday January 13, 2022 @02:08PM (#29925191)
As this is from Statistics Canada, they would be using the government definitions, which include rape on the sexual assault spectrum.

https://www.justice.gc.ca/eng/rp-pr/cj-jp/victim/rr14_01/p10...

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Re:The impact of sexual abuse on female development: a longi... by drevil-v2 on Thursday January 13, 2022 @04:58PM (#29927487)
Obviously rape would be at one end of the spectrum but what's the distribution of incidents over the entire spectrum?

They say in that report you linked in the OP that they include "behaviours such as unwelcome sexual comments, actions or advances" which are entirely subjective.

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