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I was 13. I was volunteering and ended up alone in the room with my cousin. He started touching me and wouldn't stop unless someone came in. I froze. This happened 3 other times, and I felt like it was my fault I didn't defend myself. I know now that freezing is a survival response. I did what I could as a 13 year old. 

I was in 6th grade and he was in 8th, my boyfriend at the time. 

Out of the countless times I've been attacked, my most reoccurring attacker was my own brother in high school. He would show me and his friends pornographic medias and insist I be the one to take care of things. This was what made all my high school years. 

Someone I trusted and I considered to be a close friend needed a place to stay after we went out for a going away party. He took my invitation to stay and instead used it to destroy my perception of trust in myself and others true intentions forever. 

I don’t remember what I was wearing because at the time I didn’t know that it was a rape. 4 years afterwards I learned for it to be consensual it had to be an enthusiastic yes. Mine wasn’t. 

He lured me to his apartment. We were just watching a movie until he placed my hand on him and I was too scared to move it. He started doing things to me and I didn’t want to make him mad so I laid there until he finished. 

It was in a church basement. I was 14, he was an adult. And he made me clean up the blood by myself. There was a lot of it. He lured me in by asking if I wanted to hear a song he wrote. I was wearing my mother's shirt. After she found out, she burned it.  

It was in his truck. He begged me to, then he proceeded. I cried the whole time, my face against the cold window. In the high school parking lot.

On the 4th of July watching fireworks with my then girlfriend she kept trying to touch me in a sexual way even after I had told her no multiple times and pushing her hand away. Eventually she said that she would yell if I tried stopping her advances again.  

I met him at a bar and we went back to his place. I remember laying down in his bed then I went to sleep. I woke up in the morning with out my pants and flannel on. This happened on campus November of 2022 but I never reported it. 

I’d just gotten back from spring break in Arizona. My puppy had been at my parents house, so when he invited me to a puppy play date I thought she’d love it. Turns out he had more planned, and didn’t stop even when his own dog tried to get in between us.  

He was from Tinder. It took me a long time to realize what had happened to me. It was hard to grasp it as assault because I invited him over and he was at my apartment, but it was oddly freeing remembering I told him no and that it wasn't my fault. 

It has been 14 years since the cousin I grew up with (and considered at the time an older sibling) took advantage of me. I was 7 years old, my aunt was busy taking care of all my other cousins she was babysitting. He was only asked to put me to bed. 

It was a hot summer day, my perpetrator wanted to pick me up and drive around so I said yes. We started driving for a little bit before he stopped and forced himself on me. After he was done, I asked him to drop me off and I cried for hours. I felt dirty. 

It happened from 7-10. Apparently since he was a child it's okay. Apparently since he wanted to 'experiment' by penetration it's okay. Apparently since he has ADHD it's okay. It's not okay.