THEMATIC REPORT 2017 SEXUAL TORTURE ANNEX: METHODS OF SEXUAL TORTURE Through interviews, with seventeen IRCT member centres, for this report, a more comprehensive list of methods of sexual torture has been established. It goes beyond simple definitions of sexual torture techniques, incorporating categories that are more specific to the experience of torture, such as its duration, the place of occurrence, or a particular target group. Some categories, such as forced abortion or humiliation due to one’s sexual orientation, do not directly target the sexuality or the sexual organs of a victim, but still strongly affect them. Additionally, it must always be taken into account that alongside sexual torture, victims usually also experience other forms of torture. Verbal humiliation of sexual content ‘Correctional rape’ Public humiliation due to sexual orientation and gender Gang rape identity Forced disclosure of personal information related to sexual orientation and gender identity Sexual molestation (e.g. touching, intrusive physical proximity, cutting or shaving of hair etc.) Stripping and forced nakedness Threats of rape or of other kinds of sexual torture Threats of sexual torture against family members or friends Suspending of (heavy) objects from genitalia, e.g. from scrotum Forced performance of humiliating physical acts Repeated rape Rape through introduction of inanimate objects into the genitalia Rape through introduction of animate objects into the genitalia ‘Anal examination’ ‘Virginity testing’ Forced sexual torture (e.g. rape) by relatives, friends or acquaintances Deliberate sexual torture (e.g. rape) by relatives, friends or acquaintances Forced to sexually torture (e.g. rape) others, including Rape by someone of opposite sex relatives, friends or acquaintances Rape by someone of same sex Forced to witness others, including relatives, friends or acquaintances, being sexually tortured page 36