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Groped

Aged 18, Sept 2025
When I was in [a nightclub] I was getting touched inappropriately. When I asked them to stop it made it worse and when I informed the doormen – they didn’t seem to care at all!

Catcalled

Daisy, Aged 14, 2025,
I was waiting with my friend for her to get picked up and some men pulled up asking if we were flipping them off and on their way to us they turned the car around, revving it and screeching the tires. We are 14 this isn’t okay, you are grown men.

Sexually Harassed

2016, Aged 18:
I had finished at a birthday party and was waiting outside for a friend to pick me up. My friend’s family member came to give me a hug and began to pick me up and put his hand up my skirt. Thankfully my friend had just arrived in the car so the man stopped.

Sexually harassed

Aged 20: I was at the counter of a shop I used to go into regularly. I was catching up with the boss, telling him that my new job was selling items like gold, silver, clocks, etc inc vintage toys. He then said his friend had a company selling toys. He then asked if I’d used the toys on...

Sexually Assaulted

Aged 17, Jan 2019: I was at a friend’s birthday party and was sat chatting with my best friend at a table. The birthday girl’s dad was stood next to the table and decided to lean over to me and put his tongue in my mouth. I was trying to get him off me and it was only until me and...

Verbal harassment

Aged 17, 2025 Me (17) and a friend (15) were sat near [a bar] in Blackpool, when a much older man (about 50) came up and sat opposite us. He insisted that he should have a drink out of our cups, despite having a drink himself. He proceeded to make many comments about us being beautiful...

Verbally abused

Aged 26, 2025 I was approached by an older gentleman and his wife. At the time I was heavily pregnant. At this time I was extremely self conscious and my body had grown to support my baby. This older couple decided to shout at me that I looked huge and I should stop eating as I was huge...

Sexually harassed

Harriet, aged 17, 2025 I was on the number 42 bus going towards Blackpool town centre when a drunk man got onto the bus and noticed me after he sat down. He got so close to me that he spilt his beer down my legs and I could feel his eyes darting towards my face and down my clothes. He...

Rape

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...

Followed

Aged 57, 2025 I got off the bus, around 9am on a Saturday morning, and walked towards Lord Street to go to the shop. A man who was coming out of a side street initially going the opposite way to me, turned round and started walking behind me. As I went to cross the road he did too, so I...

Catcalled

Aged 27, May 2025 I was on my lunch break from work. Shortly after leaving the office, I walk past a group of older men smoking at a bench. As I walked by, I could feel them looking at me and one of them said loudly “look at the ass on her!”. The group started laughing. I felt so...

Catcalled and Followed

Aged 35, 2025 I’ve been walking home on 2 occasions were drunk men have shouted inappropriate things. I ignored and carried on walking but the first man followed me. Luckily my husband was home to come and meet me. It happens all too much in Claremont. I worry for young girls who may be...