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For purposes of this article, the following definitions apply:(a) “Abuse of property” means damaging or destroying another person’s property.
(b) “Dating partner” means any person involved in an intimate association with another person primarily characterized by the expectation of affectionate involvement whether casual, serious, or long term.
(c) “Healthy relationship” means an equal relationship free from abusive, violent, and controlling behavior where each person respects the other’s right to have his or her own opinions, friends, and activities, and in which each person in the relationship can openly communicate with the other person.
(d) “Inappropriate sexual behavior” means any unwanted sexual contact including sexual battery, touching, kissing, caressing, and rubbing.
(e) “Internet abuse” or “cyber bullying” means the use of verbal or psychological abuse or threats using electronic means including cell phone texting, e-mail, Internet Web postings, blogs, or social networking sites.
(f) “Nonverbal abuse” means the use of intimidation, getting peers to threaten or intimidate, using electronic devices such as pagers and cell phones to harass, threaten or intimidate, or the use of nonwritten materials to harass, threaten, or intimidate.
(g) “Obscene materials” means sexually explicit notes, graffiti, drawings, photos, or any other material that is made to be or is otherwise presented in a sexually explicit nature.
(h) “Physical abuse” means shaking, arm-twisting, pushing, hitting, kicking, slapping, choking, hair pulling, physical intimidation, or any behavior that may result in nonaccidental injury.
(i) “Physical intimidation” means restraining someone, blocking movements or exits, punching walls, or throwing things.
(j) “Reproductive control” means forms of coercion that interfere with a person’s ability to control his or her reproductive life such as intentionally exposing a partner to sexually transmitted infections, a partner attempting to impregnate a young woman against her will, a partner intentionally interfering with birth control methods, or a partner threatening or acting violent if she or he does not comply with the perpetrator’s wishes regarding contraception or the decision whether to terminate or continue a pregnancy.
(k) “Sexual assault” means forced or nonconsensual sexual contact, including rape, attempted rape, forced oral or anal copulation, or genital contact.
(l) “Sexual harassment” means any unwanted sexual attention, including catcalls, verbal or written comments about a person’s body or sexual conduct, sexual gestures, or spreading sexual gossip or graffiti.
(m) “Sexual violence” means sexual assault, sexual abuse, or sexual stalking of a minor child or teenager, including sexual violence committed by perpetrators who are strangers to the victim and by perpetrators who are known by, or related by blood or marriage to, the victim. “Sexual violence” can involve sexual harassment, inappropriate sexual behavior, and sexual assault.
(n) “Stalking” means willfully and repeatedly following or harassing another person or making a threat with the intent to place that person in fear for his or her safety, or the safety of his or her family.
(o) “Teen dating violence” means a pattern of behavior where a person uses threats of physical abuse or actual physical abuse, sexual abuse, verbal abuse, or emotional abuse to control his or her current or former dating partner and one or both of the partners is a teenager. “Teen dating violence” can include verbal abuse, written materials, use of weapons, the destruction of property, stalking, Internet abuse or cyber bullying, and other forms of intimidation.
(p) “Use of weapons” means brandishing or using a weapon to intimidate or injure another person.
(q) “Verbal abuse” means the use of threats, put-downs, name-calling, insults, offensive language, sexually explicit or homophobic language, screaming, or yelling.
(r) “Written materials” means threatening notes, graffiti drawings, photos, obscene materials, or any other printed or written expressions of threat.