Sexual Assault

'A radio personality, a date, a colleague: My painfully unexceptional history of sexual assault.'

'At 17, I woke up to a boy on top of me. For 10 years, I didn't recognise it for what it was.'

'At 23, my body was violated by someone I knew. Now, I'm trying to understand why I didn't scream.'

Sophie Hardcastle

Cosby, Weinstein, and what the public has always got wrong about victims of sexual assault.

Jessica. Miriam. Lauren. Annabella. Dawn. Tarale. Thank you for walking through hell for us.

Billi Fitzsimons

'I was 21 and in my first job when my boss took me out to lunch. Then he sexually assaulted me.'

'I spent the holidays with my abuser as he lay on his death bed. My grandfather.'

Elizabeth Métraux

The dark story behind Bikram hot yoga, and its founder: Bikram Choudhury.

'I told my mother I was sexually assaulted. She said: "Boys will be boys".'

"I thought it was love until I realised that my first sexual experience with him was rape."

"'Is this a random nightmare?' I didn't realise I was sexually abused until I was in my 30s."

"My ex-boyfriend tried to rape me. And I'm still not okay."

'He raped me in my school uniform.' Australian women have shared the clothes they were wearing when they were raped.

'I was sexually assaulted by an ex at 18. Four decades later, my daughter had her own story.'

"I refused to say the 'R' word. After my sexual assault, I gaslighted myself for 18 years.”

"Who would have sex with that?" The price sexual assault survivors pay to tell their stories.

Chelsea McLaughlin

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