This, sadly, needs no introduction. It is a list of the unwanted touch/attention I recall receiving throughout my life to date. I am now 45.
In my pre-teens
Followed home by a man whilst walking home from a friend’s house
In my teens
Hair pulled on the bus to school
Grabbed in the crotch on bus to school
Uncle making me dance with him and squeezing my bum when I was 14
Cat-called several few times
London in my 20s
Mugged whilst walking home – followed down road, pushed to ground, phone stolen
Hit on the arm by a teenage boy with a stick as I walked past
Hit on the head by a passing man as I put my rubbish out
Flashed at by a man whilst sitting on a stationary tube train
London in my 40s
Cat called as I walked to a night out
Sexual assault on a date
Bum grabbed and squeezed on the underground as I walked by
Hands on my body, without asking, numerous times at nightclubs
Hand on my back and body pressed against whilst stood talking to friends in a pub
Sexual hand gesture as I walked to the train station one afternoon to pick up kids
