Question

Sexual assault and sexual harassment crimes are often misunderstood to be motivated by

Answer 1

are often misunderstood to be motivated by: Sexual attraction.
Almost all people are sexually attracted to certain types of individuals but only a select few conducted the sexual crimes.
Sexual assault and harassment are most commonly motivated by loneliness. The conductors of this type of crime usually are not able to obtain Consensual sexual intimacy in their personal life so they had to force it to others in order to get it.