Sexual Abuse

This includes rape, indecent exposure, sexual harassment, inappropriate looking or touching, sexual teasing or innuendo, sexual photography, subjection to pornography or witnessing sexual acts, indecent exposure and sexual assault or sexual acts to which the adult has not consented or was pressured into consenting.

Denial of a sexual life to consenting adults is also considered abusive practice as is any sexual relationship that develops between adults where one is in a position of trust, power or authority in relation to the other by, for example, a teacher or tutor, social, residential, care or health worker etc.