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Perspectives on sexual assault

I think they [my family] will probably appreciate it [the SV/SA policy] as long as it’s helping me, but I don’t think they would think something like this will happen. And usually, if Asians are…

Facilitator: We do have a lot of body contact with friends. Participant 1: But you don’t want strangers touching your body. You can have my approval to touch me everywhere, but if a stranger touches…

For my personal experiences, uhm, it’s not good to be alone when you are in public. Uhm, I just want to share my personal experience a little bit. When I was in a computer class…

CBU is very diverse community that we have a large number of international students here. […] This university should understand, there is a fact that each person’s experience will be affected by many factors including,…

In my opinion, the sexual assault policy only explains in detail what is sexual assault. I think maybe it should be necessary to list some of the contents of the criminal law against these sexual…

I have another piece of advice about precaution. I think when we talk to our professor, we need to keep the door open when we talk in a narrow space in his/her office because I’m…

The most important is how to protect the survivor, let her feel better. Not just “her”, sometimes it is a boy, right? Because […] before in the old times, maybe this happened more to girls,…

There is nothing that considers a little bit less or “medium stage” [sexual assault] and that is concerning. Like, if it is really serious, maybe you have to go to court or deal with the…

I did tell my mom about the sexual assault when it happened to me, but our culture – I guess you already know it is Chinese culture – it is very conservative. Older parents, grandparents,…

I have never experienced this, but […] if I had this kind of experience, I would just want a friend so we could do things together. Like, eat meals with me, sleep with me, go…

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