Janine Rowse^1,2, Liyasha Goonetilleke, Richard Bassed^1,2  

¹Monash University Department of Forensic Medicine; ²Victorian Institute of Forensic Medicine

In a time of unprecedented information sharing, it is crucial to capture contemporaneous emerging and evolving trends in sexual assault, to better inform clinical forensic medicine practitioners as well as societal preventive efforts. 

Findings from a four-year statewide dataset of over 1500 adult sexual assault forensic medical examinations are presented, including: technology facilitated sexual assault features, sexual assault in the workplace, stealthing related allegations, features of sexual assault in the masseuse setting, sexual assault of pregnant complainants, strangulation symptomatology and examination findings, as well as emerging possible features of extreme sexual violence of forensic significance (oral penetrative choking and hair dragging).