Wartime sexual violence

thumb|270px|A 15th century Ottoman Empire|Ottoman medical illustration by [[Sabuncuoğlu Şerafeddin depicting an operation for castration]]

attachment of any ownership right over one or more people with the intent of coercing or otherwise forcing them to engage in sexual activities

war crime; violence related to personal sexuality during combat; may be part of genocide, ethnic cleansing, psychologic war tactics

thumb|The Rajput ceremony of Jauhar, 1567, as depicted by Ambrose Dudley in Hutchinsons History of the Nations, Jauhar, sometimes spelled Jowhar or Juhar, was a practice of mass self-immolation by Rajput kshatriya women and girls in the Indian subcontinent to avoid capture, sex slavery, enslavement, and rape when facing certain defeat during a war. Some reports of jauhar mention women committing self-immolation along with their children, Jauhar performed to avoid rape and necrophilia by the invading armies. This practice was historically observed in the northwest regions of India, with the mo

sexual assault as political terrorism

Classical Islamic law allowed men to have sexual intercourse with their female slaves.