Rape

We need to better recognise it isn’t easy for a woman to accept the person they have invested their life in, their intimate partner, may be sexually abusing them

Women are exposed to a particularly insidious and damaging trauma when sexually abused by an intimate partner, shattering trust and self-worth

We need to bring together the sometimes unique factors behind Intimate Partner Sexual Violence if we are to better understand and counter it

Changing definitions of sexual consent from just saying “no” to having to say “yes” is good but we can’t pretend that consent is just a word problem.