Is that sexual assault?

Hello everyone.
First let me say I have no idea what I'm doing. I'm not sure this is the right place to post this kind of thing. I'm sorry if my question insults you, I don't want to hurt anyone's feelings. My question is really stupid and trivial but I really need to find an answer.
So here it is:
If one was asleep and another touched them in private places, could that be considered a sexual assault?

Mistaken, I don't think that's a stupid question at all. It can be incredibly difficult to deal with things like this whether the person was asleep or not it still happened and it still affects. To answer your question though yes, when someone is asleep they can not concent to ANY sort of sexual activity be it all out intercourse or just touching, if it made the other person feel uncomfortable or affected the other person in anyway it can be considered a sexual assault. Still, and it may seem trivial to say this but you'd be surprised how many get hung up on this we obsess on anything sexual it's just our nature, accidents happen and if someone were to honestly make the mistake of touching someone it would not be an assault.
~Jen

Hey, mistaken! Yes, if someone is asleep and another person touched them in private places, it is sexual assault. You can't consent while you are asleep and it's just like if they touched you if you were awake and you didn't want them to. I hope you are ok. You can talk here all you want.

Yes mistaken it is indeed sexual assault.

thank you all for replying, you've been a great help ...

and yes Jen I know what you mean and I have been thinking about that a lot too but ... how do you know if it was just a mistake or not?

I feel so stupid for writing this. I mean what does it really matter, right? There's so many people out there with actual problems and here I am wasting your time ... I'm sorry

In my experience, it would pretty hard to accidentally touch someone, but it does depend how you are laying. Side, pretty hard. Back, it's possible, but not without likely violating personal space first.

My 2c.

What exactly happened, mistaken? If you think you can tell us. Aplesause is right, you can't really do this without violating someone's personal space firts.

the thing is i was in a relationship with him. and that's just another thing that's confusing me ... can something really be considered a sexual assault when one's in a relationship with the person who sexually assults them?
anyhow ... we never really had sex, I mean there was never any penetration. I would do things to please him of course but that was just oral. but we sometimes slept in the same bed and ... sometimes I would wake up feeling sore or with weird taste in my mouth, bra half unhooked ... but I never thought anything about it. It was only after we had broken up that he told me the truth.
So now I'm confused. It's all so weird and disgusting to me ...

That is definately sexual assault or rape. You can be assaulted by any one. Being in a relationship is not consent. Only telling him that you want to have sex or that you want to have him touch you is consent.
I'm so sorry he did this to you. Don't be confused, you were assaulted and he had no right to do that. It's not your fault that this happened, it's his.

Yes it can be, I was sexually assaulted/raped, sexually abused multiple times while in a relationship.