Aged 40 2023 In a group of four friends, all in our 40s, we went to ***** for a dance. Immediately we were swarmed by different men older than us who kept trying to dance, grind etc. We told them to back off but they kept coming, it was incredibly intimidating and the bouncers just...
Aged 24 2023 A group of men were walking past me at the bottom of the street and one of them stopped to watch me until I reached him. I carried on walking and they all started laughing as he made jokes about just wanting to watch the nice view and liking the view etc. They all watched me...
AI, Aged 18
A man sat next to me on the bus touched and touched my leg.
SSP, Aged 17 1993 After a night out – I was unable to stay at my friends house as planned. So her male “friend” took me to a hotel on New South Promenade, once I was there, he took me to an empty bedroom told me that I could lie down and he would get into bed with me. He was a lot...
Aged 15 2021 I was on the 75 bus coming home from school at around 7pm but due to it being winter it was quite dark and quiet. I had the whole bus to myself until an older man came on and sat right next to me. I thought it was weird but didn’t say anything. I had my headphones in and just...
Aged 13 2022 Sat in science class with a new seating plan and the boy sat next to me kept trying to put his hand up my skirt and on my thighs. *Note: This incident was plotted following a workshop at Blackpool 6th Form with girls from various schools. This girl chose not to share which...
2016 Aged 18 I was in a bar in with friends and this man started talking to me, I was polite to him and chatted back for a bit but I wasn’t interested. He started being overly flirtatious and really touchy feely. When I think about it I would be horrified now if someone was acting like...
2011 Aged 21 I was walking to work around 6pm during an icy, dark winter. I thought I was alone but realised a much older man was following me. He started shouting sexually explicit things and speeding up behind me. It was to icy for me to run but luckily someone came walking towards us...
2004-2020
Aged 15-31
[In a public building] Groomed from being 15 and coercive controlled and sexually harassed thereafter by the same person.
2008 Aged 26 I was making the short walk to my car after my night shift working behind a bar. There were very few people still around and it was a very cold winter night so I was wrapped up in my winter coat, scarf and woolly hat and walking very briskly towards where I was parked. An...
2022 Aged 17 I was walking home with dinner in my hand. When I was crossing the road a man walked passed me and said I had ‘beautiful knockers on my chest’. I continued home concerned and then I noticed 3 separate men in different cars looking at me up and down and whistling. I was only...
2002 C, aged 24 I was working in a shop. When I went out onto the shop floor to tidy up, a group of drunk men came in and started making sexual comments to me and about me. As I turned to go back behind the counter one of them grabbed my vagina from behind, putting his hand right between...
2019 Aged 39 Upon walking into the bar a group of men thought it was appropriate to comment on me and my partner sexually. They made explicit jokes “you just need a good ****” not in a funny way that can be passed off – it was aggressive. It felt like if we didn’t leave we would get hurt...
2015, PB, aged 15 I was walking home alone after an afternoon at the sandcastle, it was still light and busy out so I hadn’t thought it necessary to call my mum for a lift. A group of men walking behind me began talking inappropriately about me – about my bum and what...
1999, age 10
I was in the queue in the shop and an old man lifted up the back of my school skirt with his walking stick.