Sexual Violence & Sensitive Issues
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Browse PanicStation.org guides for highly sensitive situations involving sexual violence concerns, coercion, unwanted sexual content, pressure, secrecy, fear, or uncertainty.
These guides are written to prioritise safety, support, calm first steps, and avoiding self-blame. They may suggest contacting specialist support services, preserving evidence where safe, avoiding further engagement with harmful people, or seeking urgent help where needed.
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a client or customer sends sexual messages and you feel unsafe or worried about your work a colleague is pressuring you to meet alone in a hotel room a coworker repeatedly asks intrusive questions about your sex life a coworker, manager, or other person keeps making unwanted sexual comments or messages a date refuses to leave your home or pressures you to let them inside a date repeatedly ignores your no and keeps pressuring you for sex by text a fake account or dating profile uses your identity to send sexual messages a friend seems suddenly disoriented or drugged at a social event and you fear they are unsafe a friend tells you they were sexually assaulted and you do not know what to do first a group leader or organiser sends you unwanted sexual messages a healthcare professional performs intimate touching or an examination without your consent a job or work opportunity communication turns sexual or inappropriate a manager or supervisor makes you feel uncomfortable or unsafe during one-to-one meetings a neighbour repeatedly makes unwanted sexual comments and you feel unsafe or worried they may escalate a partner insists on recording sex and becomes angry when you refuse a partner interferes with or controls your contraception, medication, or pregnancy choices a partner keeps pressuring you into sex or sexual acts after you say no a partner keeps waking you up for sex and you feel unsafe a partner pressures you to drink or take substances against your will a partner pressures you to share your phone passcode and becomes hostile when you refuse a partner refuses, removes, or pressures you not to use agreed sexual protection a professional appointment feels sexualised or unsafe and you want to leave a rideshare or taxi driver makes sexual comments and you feel trapped or unsafe a service worker or contractor makes sexual comments and you still need access to your home a teacher, coach, or mentor sends sexual messages or asks for secret communication a therapist, counsellor, or support worker sends you sexual or inappropriate messages an audition, photoshoot, or opportunity unexpectedly pressures you to undress or provide explicit images an ex keeps sending unwanted sexual messages from new accounts after you have blocked them an interviewer or recruiter asks sexual or inappropriate personal questions sexual content or an advert is posted using your photos or contact details without consent sexual rumours or posts identifying you are spreading online, at work, or in your community someone asks you to send a photo of your ID during a sexual conversation someone at a party keeps trying to isolate you or take you to a private place someone at your gym or class keeps sexualising you and will not stop after you disengage someone claiming to represent the person who harmed you pressures you to respond someone claims they are underage after sending explicit images and now demands money or favours someone claims to have an intimate video or webcam recording and threatens to share it someone crowds your personal space in a sexual way and you feel trapped someone exposes themselves to you in person and you feel unsafe someone gropes or touches you sexually in a crowded public place someone in a group chat is making unwanted sexual comments and others are joining in someone in authority implies work or another opportunity depends on sexual attention or favours someone insists you consented to sex but you remember saying no someone keeps appearing where you go and making unwanted sexual comments someone keeps pressuring you for a ride home after you have said no someone keeps pressuring you to get into their car to talk privately someone keeps steering a conversation toward sexual chat and ignores your attempts to stop someone pressures you for sexual favours in exchange for money, housing, rides, help, or opportunities someone pressures you to send intimate photos, videos, voice notes, or live sexual content someone pressures you to sign a consent or release form for intimate filming you did not expect someone repeatedly asks for your home address after sexual chatting and you feel pressured to share it someone says you owe them sex or threatens relationship consequences if you refuse someone threatens to expose intimate images, messages, or sexual information to control you someone threatens to make false sexual allegations against you to force your compliance someone threatens to rape or sexually assault you someone threatens to share intimate images unless you pay, send more content, or meet them someone threatens to spread false claims about consent unless you stay silent someone uses secrecy around a relationship to pressure you into sexual acts or images someone you just met follows you and will not take no for an answer someone you met online pressures you to meet in private and refuses public places someone you rely on for care makes sexual comments and you fear retaliation the person who sexually assaulted you appears unexpectedly at your home, work, or an event you are considering a medical or forensic exam after a suspected sexual assault and feel overwhelmed you are considering reporting a sexual assault and feel overwhelmed or unsure what to do first you are in immediate danger of sexual assault and cannot leave safely you are pressured to meet privately after reporting sexual harassment and you feel unsafe you are pressured to stay silent, sign an agreement, or resolve sexual misconduct informally you are sent explicit content that appears to involve someone who may be underage and you feel panicked you are worried a friend is in danger and they have suddenly stopped responding you discover an explicit deepfake image or video of yourself you discover someone has saved intimate photos you sent them you feel pressured into sexual contact during a healthcare or support appointment and feel unsafe you find device monitoring or tracking settings and fear someone is using them to control you you find or suspect a hidden camera or secret recording device in a private space you find sexual images of your child on a device and you suspect coercion or exploitation you have just been sexually assaulted and are now somewhere safe you have memory gaps or unexplained signs that make you fear you were sexually assaulted you keep receiving unwanted explicit images and the sender will not stop you learn a friend is being pressured for sexual photos and they are afraid to tell anyone you realise someone is collecting your photos and making sexual comments about you online you receive a message with a link claiming to be an intimate photo of you you receive sexual threats online after you rejected someone and they keep escalating you suspect someone else has access to your private photos or cloud account you suspect someone is grooming you by rushing intimacy and isolating you from others you think an intimate video call or sexual situation was recorded without your consent you think someone used your unlocked phone to search for or share intimate content while you were asleep you think your phone camera or microphone was accessed and fear intimate content was captured you wake up while someone is touching you sexually without consent you witness someone who may be sexually assaulting an unconscious or impaired person your child is being blackmailed or threatened online for sexual images or money your child tells you someone sexually abused or touched them your intimate photos or videos are being shared online or in a group chat without consent your landlord or housing provider makes sexual comments and implies your housing depends on it your workplace is not responding to sexual harassment and the behaviour is getting worse