Sexual abuse from a partner or ex can be hard to talk about. You might have agreed to have sexual contact with someone in the past but that does not mean they have a right to touch you whenever they please.
Sexual abuse is when your partner or ex-partner:
- Pressures you into having sex or performing sexual acts
- Makes you feel guilty or like you owe him sex through threats or force
- Hurts you with objects during sex
- Involves other people in sexual activities with you without your consent
- Ignores you if you say you don’t want to have sex
- Forces you to watch, re-enact or participate in the making of pornography
- Shares, or threatens to share, intimate images of you without your consent