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What if you don’t want to have sex but someone else does?

It’s common to have one person who wants to have sex and the other person doesn’t. When this happens in healthy situations, both people say what they want and don’t want, the limit is respected and the person who wants sex accepts that they won’t get what they want. It’s not okay to keep pressuring, pestering, bullying, manipulating or coercing someone to have sex when they don’t want to. It’s sexual assault to continue a sexual activity when someone doesn’t want to. If any of that happens, talk with a trusted adult.

 
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