Sexual abuse
Sexual abuse includes a wide range of activity which involves forcing or pressuring people into doing things they don’t want to do, or aren’t able to agree to.
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Consent
Giving consent to sexual contact means that you agree to have sex or to be intimate with someone.
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Rape and sexual assault
Rape means somebody having sex with you without your consent (by sex we mean somebody inserting their penis into your vagina, mouth or anus).
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Sexual exploitation
Sexual exploitation is when people use the power they have over people – usually young people and children – to sexually abuse them.
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Underage sex
Underage sex means having sex when below the age of consent, which is the age at which you're legally allowed to have sex.
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Female genital mutilation (FGM)
Female genital mutilation (sometimes referred to as female circumcision) refers to procedures that intentionally alter or cause injury to the female genital organs for non-medical reasons.
