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...
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 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.
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...
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
18, January 2023
The male bouncers at this nightclub forcibly removed me for looking after my friends when they deemed her to be too drunk. I was left with bruises all up and down my arms. I remember them holding my neck too. Completely abusing their position.
DA, 33, 2025 I was walking down the prom, at about 17:45 on a Tuesday evening. I was walking with my 14 year old daughter, and as we walked along a man cycled past and slap groped by buttock as hard as he could. I yelped in pain as he cycled off laughing. I shouted at him that it was...
Aged 19, 2003 I got a taxi home from a night out with friends – I was the last one in the cab. I was very drunk and was struggling to open my front door. A man – I’m unsure if it was the taxi driver or a neighbour – came behind me and turned the key to help me in. He then pushed me...
Aged 18, 2025 I was stood on the corner of a street near the train station for my taxi on farmer’s weekend, and I heard commotion in the car park so I looked over and a girl was walking to her car being followed by a man in a red farmers top (the ones with the horrible writing on the...
Lucy Aged 18, 2020 Met with a guy for some drinks in town (Fleetwood), he seemed really nice and we’d met up a few time before so he wasn’t a stranger. I’m working early the next day and it’s starting to get dark, so I tell him I’d best get home. I wasn’t at all drunk, I’d had maybe 2 or...
Suzie M. Aged 27, 1979 I was standing outside the store with a loft ladder purchase waiting for my husband to drive around to pick me up. Up to half a dozen Scottish men (the prom was really busy and it was very hot – I believe it was known as Scots week) came up to me and began...
Aged 23 & 39, 8th February 2025 went to the bar, my boyfriend was inside I went outside for a cigarette & the door supervisor refused to let me in to get my boyfriend, I felt vulnerable outside this bar alone & needed my boyfriend, the doorman became verbally aggressive &...
RK, Aged 19 2011 I was dancing with my friends when a man approached me and said “sorry this was a dare” and proceeded to “motorboat me” and then walked away. I was so shocked that I just froze, and had no idea what to do until my friends pointed out that this had...