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We use a variety of terms to name acts of sexual harm, including ‘sexual violence’; we take the view that whether an offence involves physical contact or not, it is violating, and can thus be regarded as being sexually violent. We do not engage in the semantic niceties of ‘How violent is violent?’ A victim’s personal experience of violation/violence is not personally comparable with any other violence; to make such comparison fails to understand the harm experienced by individual victims. We also use the terms ‘sexual coercion’ and ‘sexual harm’.