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...
A, 16, June 1988
Raped in a car by a group of protestant boys. Raped because I was Catholic.
20, 2010
Hit it off with a guy who was a friend of a friend on a night out and went back to his flat.
When I got there I told him that I’d had too much to drink, but that did not stop him. He had sex with me when I wanted him to stop.
Dani, 33
Playing for a mixed gendered hockey team. An older male player had a muscle injury and suggested I “rubbed it better”.
He did not ask any male members of the team, just me as the only female present.
18, 2008
When sharing a news story at work about eco clothing being biodegradable. A male manager later messaged me privately to say “Biodegradable underwear? Not sure what I would do if you came to work with no underwear on”.
I was a teenager and he was a man in an authority position.
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...
L, 17, 2016 A close friend who knew that I was vulnerable emotionally used that against me. He knew that I didn’t want to do any of the things that were done. He made me feel like my resistance was being unkind. These things happened on the sports field and his home. The last time...
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 &...
27, 2023 I was on a run around Marton Mere, in broad daylight in summer. I passed a lone man on the trail going the opposite way to me and made eye contact. The look on his face told me what was going to happen next (if you know you know!) I carried on as normal for another few metres and...
23/24, December 05 Work Xmas party… Chatting to a work colleague’s friend who had come as his plus 1. Plied with drinks, threw up on myself but he still took me to his hotel where we slept together. I’m still unsure how it happened but I just remember my colleague...
42, 2022
Ass groped by a man at the bar who then stared at me all night
2013 I was kissing my then girlfriend in the pub and a man kept coming up to us and saying we should with him instead/wanting to join us (I can’t remember the exact words anymore). The third time he came up to us he got his penis out. The bar staff immediately threw him out but we...