What qualifies as sexual abuse?
This includes any type of forced sexual contact, including forcing the victim to have relationship with others. It also may include denial or refusal by the abuser to meet the victims need for love and affection. Here are some examples of sexual abuse:

• Told anti-gender jokes, made demeaning remarks about men/women.
• Treated men/women as sex objects.
• Been jealously angry, accuses you of having sex with other men/women.
• Insisted you dress in a more sexual way than you wanted.
• Minimized the importance of your feelings about sex.
• Criticized you sexually.
• Insisted on unwanted and uncomfortable touching.
• Withheld sex and affection.
• Called you demeaning sexual names.
• Forced you to strip when you did not want to.
• Publicly showed sexual interest in other men/women.
• Had affairs with other men/women after agreeing to a faithful relationship.
• Forced to have sex with him/her or others, forced to watch sex acts.
• Forced to perform unwanted sexual acts.
• Forced sex after a beating.
• Forced sex when you were sick or recuperating from an injury or other disablement.
• Forced sex with objects or weapons for the purpose of hurting you.
• Committed sadistic sexual acts.