ABSTRACT
Many surveys on sexual assaults experienced by female college students have since been conducted, including two national US projects and a Canadian national study. Although rape, sexual assault, and other types of sexual misconduct against college students receive the lion’s share of attention these days, sexual violence against all adult women has been, and continues to be, a serious problem. Fast-forwarding to the current era, many sexual assaults are still trivialized, and numerous perpetrators are treated lightly by the courts. Feminist scholars and activists contend that narrow definitions of sexual assault, such as those that focus only on penile, oral, and anal intercourse, ignore countless female subjective experiences of sexual assault or create a hierarchy of sexual victimization based on seriousness. Another group of highly injurious acts existing on the continuum of sexual violence that have not received as much attention as other forms of sexual abuse are technology-facilitated forms of sexual victimization.
