What’s the difference between sexual assault and sexual harassment?
Sexual assault can be defined as intentional sexual contact, characterized by use of force, physical threat or abuse of authority or when the victim does not or cannot consent. Sexual assault includes rape, nonconsensual sodomy (oral and anal sex), indecent assault (unwanted, inappropriate sexual contact or fondling), or attempts to commit these acts. Sexual assault can occur without regard to gender. For this instruction, the term sexual assault will be used generically to include assault with intent to commit rape, assault with intent to commit sodomy, indecent assault, rape, and forcible sodomy, and applies to adult victims and perpetrators.