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I think the action typically has to be for sexual pleasure on the part of the attacker.
Rape and sexual assault almost never has anything to do with "pleasure", the individual is really showing power and dominance. After all, if I went up to a woman and savagely mauled her breasts, what pleasure am I really getting out of that, especially through clothing? I might as well be mauling her elbows. But what I am doing is telling her "See, I can do this because I am a man, and I am bigger and stronger then you are and you can't stop me".
And yes, I think it is sexual assault, just as much as if I was to maul a woman's breasts or buttocks. Of course, I also have no sympathy for any kind of assault outside of self-defense, and believe that all should be prosecuted severely.