1. Minors to legal adults (Statutory Rape);
2. Mentally disabled persons;
3. Physically incapacitated persons:
   Note: One who is physically incapacitated as a result of alcohol or other drug consumption (voluntary and involuntary), or who is unconscious, unaware, or otherwise physically helpless, is incapable of giving consent.

Rape: The oral, anal, or vaginal penetration of the victim by a sexual organ of the assailant or anal/vaginal penetration by any means against the victim's will or without effective consent.
Here are five common scenarios/situations:

1. Stranger Rape: Rape perpetrated by someone the victim does not know.
   Example: Rose, age 25, was accosted at knife point in a shopping mall parking lot and forced by a stranger into his car. He drove her to a rural area, raped her, stabbed her five times, set the car on fire, and left her. Although severely injured, she survived.
2. Acquaintance Rape: Rape perpetrated by someone the victim knows.
   Example: Susan, age 23, went to the door of her house to find a man she recognized from one of her college classes. She opened the door to let him in the house, whereupon he threw her on the sofa and raped her.
3. Date Rape: Rape perpetrated by someone with whom the victim is dating or holds a romantic, non-marital, relationship with.
   Example: Diana, age 50, was vacationing in the Caribbean . She spent some of her time learning sailing and walking along the beach with a fellow guest. At a hotel dance, she danced with this man, and he asked her to walk outside. Once on the beach, this 6'4" man asked to have sex and forced her to cooperate by holding her down. Diana was too afraid to resist.
4. Multiple Rape: Rape perpetrated by two or more people on the same victim. This could be simultaneously or one right after the other.
   Example: Ann, age 21, was at a friend's home with a group of her peers. There were three men, one other woman, and herself present. When the other woman left, the three men raped her.
5. Marital Rape: Rape perpetrated by the spouse of the victim.
   Example: A woman recently had gynecological surgery. Two days after she came home from the hospital, her husband forced her to have sexual intercourse. This caused her to hemorrhage; she was re-hospitalized.

Sexual Harassment: The making of unwanted and/or offensive sexual advances or of sexually offensive remarks or acts. In most cases sexual harassment is done by one in a superior or supervisory position or when such behavior is a condition of continued employment, promotion, or satisfactory evaluation.

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