"gender violence" instead of 'sexual assault"

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The language in this Independent story has confused me - surely rape is sexual assault, not gender assault? Is this an example of language being modified to reflect the new reality of gender being more 'real' than sex, or am I just confused?

(I'm also surprised it's only being described as 'rape-adjacent' not rape, but that's not my main issue with the article.)

"Removing a condom during sex - known as stealthing - transforms a consensual act into a non-consensual one. It's a little-discussed form of gender violence, but that is all changing thanks to a new study into the phenomenon, published last week."

Full story: www.independent.co.uk/life-style/love-sex/stealthing-men-remove-condoms-sex-without-consent-during-mid-coitus-a7700906.html

So "male violence" then. Male sexual violence.
Mainstream is so adverse to using this term.

Personally, I think the more often we refuse to use euphemisms the better. It's male violence and we should name it. Male violence is so normal that we don't see it; we are incapable of being shocked by it. I remember back in my early teens realising that if a woman's body was reported found, it was always a man who was subsequently arrested. I think everyone, men included, makes that default assumption. We just don't react to that truth.

Sorry to post and run - been away from wifi. I agree that this is male sexual violence - violence perpetrated during sex by a person with a penis. Not violence perpretated during gender.

I'm sure there was a mumsnetter who used to post quite frequently in relationships whose abusive husband did this to her to get her pregnant against her will.