English: There is a wealth of criminal terminology in Spanish and in English relating to sex crimes, partially due to the fact that the criminality or non-criminality of certain acts has changed over time, and also due to changes in the way that societies, both Anglo and Hispanic, have decided to describe the crimes. Specifically, there has been a strong movement in the last half-century or so to make sex crimes less "morally" described (ofensas contra el honor, el pudor, p.ej.), and more clinically descriptive. This has led to the reclassification in many countries of sex crimes into either 'abuso' or 'agresión' (abuse/assuault). The differentiating factor between the two is, often, whether or not there was resistance on the part of the victim, or violence on the part of the aggressor. There were high-profile cases in Spain in 2019 which threw the inherent difficulty of this classification into relief, wherein women who were semi-conscious or unconscious due to drugs or alcohol, and therefore did not resist, were considered to be victims of abuse, rather than assault.
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