Annabel, aged 19
2019
I was out on a night out with a friend and was at the bar when I bent over to tie my shoelace. A man (who I didn’t know and hadn’t spoken to at all that night) towered over the top of me and smacked me on my bum. I stood up straight, in shock of what had happened, and he faced me and told me I was “asking for it”. I was stunned by his logic. I’m 24 now and whenever I do need to bend over in a club I make sure the back of me is either protected by a wall, friends or get a male friend to bend over and do it for me.