Welcome to Supporting Survivors Of Abuse UK
A definition of Sexual Abuse
Sexual abuse, also referred to as molestation, is the forcing of undesired sexual behavior by one person upon another, when that force falls short of being a sexual assault. The offender is referred to as sexual abuser or (often pejoratively) molester. The term also covers any behaviour by any adult towards a child to simulate either the adult or child sexually.When the victim is younger then the age of consent, it is referred to as child sexual abuse.
Positions of power
Sexual misconduct can occur where one person uses a position of authority to compel another person to engage in an otherwise unwanted sexual activity. For example, sexual harassment in the workplace might involve an employee being coerced into a sexual situation out of fear of being dismissed. Sexual harassment in education might involve a university student submitting to a professor's sexual advances in fear of being given a failing grade.
Several sexual abuse scandals have involved abuse of religious authority and often cover-up among non-abusers, including cases in the Southern Baptist religion, Catholic Church, Episcopalian religion, Islam, Jehovah's Witnesses, Lutheran church, Methodist Church, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, Orthodox Judaism, and various cults.
Source : Wikipedia.co.uk
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Anyone can be a victim of Sexual Abuse or Rape. We do not operate a gender exclusive policy, our services are open to anyone over the age of 16 yrs.
No one has a right to abuse you.
The Supporting Survivors Of Abuse UK is a members of The Survivors Trust
