Intimate Partner Sexual Violence: Consent, Coercion, and Abuse
Intimate partner sexual violence includes rape, coercion, unwanted sexual contact, and other nonconsensual sexual acts by a current or former partner.
Sextortion: Sexual Blackmail, Intimate Images, and Digital Coercion
Sextortion uses threats involving sexual images or private sexual information to demand money, more content, sexual activity, or another benefit.
Stealthing: Nonconsensual Condom Removal and Sexual Consent
Stealthing is the intentional removal or interference with a condom during sex without a partner’s knowledge or consent, violating agreed sexual boundaries.
Sexual Extortion: Sextortion, Sexual Blackmail, and Digital Abuse
Sexual extortion uses threats involving intimate images or sexual information to demand money, sexual activity, more content, or another benefit.
Image-Based Sexual Abuse: Intimate Images, Consent, and Privacy
Image-based sexual abuse involves creating, sharing, altering, or threatening to distribute intimate sexual images without the depicted person’s consent.
Technology-Facilitated Sexual Abuse: Digital Consent and Sexual Harm
Technology-facilitated sexual abuse uses digital tools to enable sexual coercion, intimate-image abuse, secret recording, sextortion, or other violations of sexual privacy.
Sexual Violence: Consent, Coercion, Assault, and Bodily Autonomy
Sexual violence includes sexual acts, contact, or coercion without freely given consent and can affect people of any gender, age, or relationship status.
Incubation Period: Time Between Infection and Symptoms
An incubation period is the time between acquiring an infection and developing symptoms, and it differs from the window period used for test detection.
Asymptomatic Infection: STIs Without Noticeable Symptoms
An asymptomatic infection is present without noticeable symptoms and may still be transmissible, making STI testing and screening important.
Test of Cure: Confirming Successful STI Treatment
A test of cure is follow-up testing used to determine whether an infection remains after treatment and differs from later testing for reinfection.