25, 2017 I was walking along market street in broad daylight (around 2pm). The street was fairly busy at a narrow section, and someone pinched my bum. I immediately looked around in horror to try and identify who had done it but there were too many people and no way of identifying who had...
Tim C, 19/20ish, June 2004/5 This is a bystander account. Whilst in the crowd at Download Festival I witnessed a young woman crowdsurfer being groped by a male member of the crowd as she went past us. This guy very deliberately took advantage of her inability to stop him, squeezing her...
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...
Age 16, 2003 When I was 16 I got a job waitressing in a pub. My mum had worked there, my aunt still worked there. The chef was a man in his late 40s I think. He would make sexualised comments to me all the time and made me incredibly uneasy and uncomfortable. I didn’t know how to respond...
SD, age 24, 2001
Grabbed in the crotch in a club.
Multiple across years
Males touching my lower back to move past or closer to a bar. “Accidentally” grazing my breast in places with space. Literally over years, everywhere, always since I was 18, I’m now 35. This happens EVERY time I go to a pub after 5pm.
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 18, 1993 While on a night bus home, a man I reckon in his 20s sat right beside me (while other seats were empty), the entire way home, he refused to move to allow me out of the seat and when I squeezed past him he groped my butt. I was so scared he was gonna follow me off the bus or...
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...
Pixi
I have been assaulted many times in varies degrees of seriousness
Jade, 14, 2004 I was groomed by a friends dad, he would be explicit in how he spoke to me and my friend. He forced himself upon me after weeks of grooming me and making me feel uncomfortable with things he would say. Multiple more women have come forward to me after I reported it (and...
Lucy, 27 On a busy public bus, sitting on the back row of seats with a young male on my left and an older male on my right, an empty seat either side me, a man gets on the bus, visibly under the influence and sits next to me, placing his hand on my thigh as he does so, jesting “sorry I...
22, June 2007 I had just graduated, I went out for a meal with friends. We stayed out for drinks and about 11ish I walked home. I had walked this way for the last 2 years without incident. Halfway home I noticed this individual following me, eventually they asked me if I was prostitute. I...
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...