Skye, 21, November 2023 I was at the Birmingham Christmas Market with a friend. As we stopped to chat, a man put his hands on my neck forcefully. He didn’t say a word and it was over quickly. He then walked off, like nothing happened. I never got a look at his face, I didn’t even see the...
F, 13, 2019 I was waiting at the bus stop in my school uniform when a man came up to me and started talking to me. He made several sexual comments and when I was visibly uncomfortable he laughed in my face. He then proceeded to flash his genitals at me. As he was finally leaving, because...
SD, Age 19, Dec 1996
New Year’s Eve and we are counting down – someone grabbed my crotch.
SD, age 24, 2001
Grabbed in the crotch in a club.
Age 24, 2015 Walking back to my family’s table with drinks from the bar on a very busy and crowded night, my hands full of drinks and a band playing loudly. While most people in the bar queue parted to let me through as we all do, one guy grabbed my vulva with his whole fist and squeezed...
Age 32, October 2018
I was walking in the early hours in the city centre when a man would not let me walk home. He grabbed me up against a shop window and kissed me. He then forced me around the corner and raped me. When I tried to escape he pulled me back by my hair.
26, 11/12/23 Went out with friends. Male was with a group of mutual friends but did not know him. Slid his hand down my back, grabbed and slapped my bottom upon leaving one bar. Appeared at another bar and told me he’d seen me go in there so followed us in. Was told to leave us alone but...
23, 2025 I was waiting for my tram when 2 men started talking to me. One was telling me how he’s barred from most bars in town for getting in fights and trying to drug and rape women. He told me he sells drugs and weapons and began lifting up clothing to show me his scars. Then he went to...
L, 18, 2016 – 2017 A mature student on my course, who was part of my friendship group continually sexually harassed and groped/assaulted me. He knew that I had severe anxiety and couldn’t speak or move properly when these things happened. I had explained this to him and...
32, 2008
I was walking and man walking in opposite direction grabbed my crotch as he walked by. Happened again (same man) about 6 months later in roughly same place.
22, July 2024
Man outside the bar sat next to me on the street pulled my top down and grabbed my boobs. I tried to push him off me but he wouldn’t let go and was laughing while I tried to get him off. No one else around tried to help.
Hand up skirt on a night out. Spiked while on a night out. Being touched without permission. All separate occasions and have been touched without permission more times than I can count.
Anonymous, 12, 1992 This was just the first instance but it has stayed with me. On a school trip some older boys cornered me, pushed me & touched me. Since then there has been men thinking they can touch, grab & worse. Even now at 45 men still think they can grab &...
42, 2022
Ass groped by a man at the bar who then stared at me all night
15 I was at a concert and a man behind me kept putting his arms around me and touching my boobs ‘by accident’ according to him and pushing against my bum. I’d repeatedly asked him to stop and told him if he didn’t he’d regret it so the next time he put his arms around around my shoulders...