Sexual Coercion
Dimension 1070 of 1,100 · Health Lens
Sexual Coercion measures the extent to which an expression describes unwanted sexual contact or sexual activity imposed through pressure, threats, intimidation, force, or exploitation of power. It encompasses experiences ranging from sexualized boundary violations and harassment to compelled sexual acts and intercourse against a person's will.
evidence final name · Forced Force
Minimal Sexual Coercion
Expressions activating this band describe sexual boundary violations, sexualized harassment, or references to sexual problems, with coercion only weakly specified, indirect, historical, or framed as screening for unwanted sexual contact.
Moderate Sexual Coercion
Expressions activating this band describe clearly unwanted sexual exposure or contact, or partner aggression that includes sexual humiliation or forceful control. Coercion is present as threats, physical aggression, or compelled sexual acts, but the emphasis is often split between sexual victimization and broader interpersonal violence.
High Sexual Coercion
Expressions activating this band describe explicit compelled sexual activity, including forced sexual acts, attempted rape, rape, or compliance obtained through threats of harm or retaliation. The unwanted nature of the sexual act and the coercive mechanism are both directly stated.
Severe Sexual Coercion
Expressions activating this band describe overtly imposed sexual intercourse or sexual activity under intense pressure, intimidation, insistence, or physical force, often with coercion framed as inescapable or overriding personal choice. The expression centers on direct compulsion into sex.
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Minimal Forced Force: Content characterized by intercourse, forced, anal, and related themes. Expressions activating this band reflect forced force at this level.
Moderate Forced Force: Content characterized by insisted, forced, unprotected, and related themes. Expressions activating this band reflect forced force at this level.
Intense Forced Force: Content characterized by forced, rape, doing, and related themes. Expressions activating this band reflect forced force at this level.
Peak Forced Force: Content characterized by intercourse, force, forced, and related themes. Expressions activating this band reflect forced force at this level.