Sexual Victimization of College Women Scale – SVCW

Since school began in the Fall, has anyone made you have sexual intercourse by using force or threatening to harm you or someone close to you? (Intercourse means putting a penis in your vagina.)

Since school began in the Fall, has anyone made you have oral sex by force or threat of harm? (Oral sex means someone’s mouth or tongue making contact with your vagina or anus, or your mouth or tongue making contact with someone else’s genitals or anus.)

Since school began in the Fall, has anyone made you have anal sex by force or threat of harm? (Anal sex means putting a penis in your anus or rectum.)

Since school began in the Fall, has anyone ever used force or threat of harm to sexually penetrate you with a foreign object? (This means, for example, placing a bottle or finger in your vagina or anus.)

Since school began in the Fall, has anyone attempted but not succeeded in making you take part in any of the unwanted sexual experiences that I have just asked you about? (For example, did anyone threaten or try but not succeed to have vaginal, oral, or anal sex with you or try unsuccessfully to penetrate your vagina or anus with a foreign object or finger?)

Not counting the types of sexual contact already mentioned, have you experienced any unwanted or uninvited touching of a sexual nature since school began in the Fall? (This includes forced kissing, touching of private parts, grabbing, fondling, and rubbing up against you in a sexual way, even if it is over your clothes.)

Since school began in the Fall, has anyone attempted or threatened but not succeeded in unwanted or uninvited touching of a sexual nature?

Since school began in the Fall, has anyone made or tried to make you have sexual intercourse or sexual contact when you did not want to by making threats of nonphysical punishment such as lowering a grade, being demoted or fired from a job, damaging your reputation, or being excluded from a group for failure to comply with requests for any type of sexual activity?

Since school began in the Fall, has anyone made or tried to make you have sexual intercourse or sexual contact when you did not want to by making promises of rewards such as raising a grade, being hired or promoted, being given a ride or class notes, or getting help with course work from a fellow student if you complied sexually?

Since school began in the Fall, has anyone made or tried to make you have sexual intercourse or sexual contact when you did not want to by simply being overwhelmed by someone’s continual pestering and verbal pressure?

Not counting any incidents we have already discussed, have you experienced any other type of unwanted or uninvited sexual contact since school began in the Fall? (This includes sexual experiences that may or may not have been reported, with strangers or people you know, in any location, and while you were awake, asleep, drunk, or otherwise incapacitated.)