How is sexual molestation defined?
Legally, you have the right to keep others from laying their hands upon your body and the space immediately surrounding it. An unwanted touching of your body or the space immediately adjacent to it constitutes the tort of battery. It may also be a criminal act as well. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_law_%28common_law%29 If an adult asks a health care provider to render some form of treatment, the patient has given consent to the touching, assuming that the health care provider has made adequate disclosures of what is involved. Now the patent’s consent is limited to the treatment agreed upon, so if you ask a doctor to check out a sore throat, the consent doesn’t cover a full gynecological exam. So, further consent would be required. So if the consent given (oral or written) would cover a genital examination, the mere act of touching a patent’s genitals would be permissible. Where chil
