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I think in general, it will have to depend. But perhaps, or preferably, seeing someone of your own [background], or someone [who] understands your background, how you feel and what you believe in, could add…

To be honest, it depends on the person. Some female victims would prefer to share with a female counsellor because a female counsellor will easily be able to understand what they went through. If it…

To be honest, I’ve heard a lot of girls telling me about incidents that happened, but I never heard about the policy and I’ve been at SMU for two years and no one has ever…

Participant 1: If they are physically okay, I would obviously reassure them that I am there for them. I would let them know that there are other people who have gone through the same thing,…

I believe there is a generational gap […]. If I bring up a topic to my father, or maybe an uncle or an aunt, and I explain to them about sexual abuse or sexual assault,…

I think it [the reason people avoid reporting sexual assault] is shame a lot of the time. Or feeling like, deep down, maybe it was my fault. Like someone mentioned earlier, we should make sure…

I think another reason people don’t report is that they are afraid of getting stuck in the system. So like, some cases do not necessarily go all the way through. Or, in the rare case,…

Maybe [people don’t report because] they don’t have any idea about their rights? We don’t have to prove our sexual assault situation, but some people think that “if I was raped, for example, it is…

For example, I’ve been assaulted more times than I can even count, and I never reported any of it because [pause] and this is totally just me- I totally understand why other people would want…

For example, look at MSVU Health Services. [They close at] 5:00 pm. The person will have to wait until Monday [laughter]. If you look at the cases that happened on campus, they were after these…