The reason why this is really important is that research has shown that the impact of image-based sexual assault is likely to be similar to the impact of sexual assault that may happen in the real world. This is still assault, it's still harmful, and it still creates lasting damage on the people it affects. Research has also shown that the victims or survivors of this type of abuse are more often than not likely to be young people, women, or people in our rainbow community. And according to Women's Refuge, image-based sexual assault is often used as a form of gender-based violence by partners or ex-partners as a form of control used to degrade their partner or former partner. This is why we need to take this type of abuse so seriously. 