Event Description

From legal perspective, Rape is a type of sexual assault usually involving sexual intercourse or other forms of sexual penetration carried out against a person without that person's consent. Whereas from the Psychological perspective, Rape can be any form of sexual assault. Particularly, when someone is using coercion or force or the threat of coercion or force to achieve any type of sexual favors or sexual intercourse is considered as committing a sexual assault or equivalent to Rape. Now in the modern age of twenty first century the biggest question that the law has to deal with is – what will be the deciding factor to understand rape? Is it absence of consent? Or is it the use of coercion? In this day and age, people use their power to abuse other people in much more subtle and indirect ways to avoid the consequences of their actions. Thus it becomes our responsibility to understand the concept of “sexual coercion” and decide -what kind of behavior will constitute an act of “sexual coercion” and how to approach such act?