“Smile, Baby! A New Study Shows How Often Women and Gay Men Are Sexually Harassed on the Street.”
“The resulting report is based off a survey administered to 2,000 people across the United States, plus interviews with ten focus groups among marginalized people around the country, like Native Americans in South Dakota and gay, bisexual, and trans men in D.C. It found that 65 percent of women and 25 percent of men reported experiencing public harassment in their lifetimes. More than half of women in the survey reported experiencing verbal harassment, while 41 percent had experienced physical aggression in public: 23 percent of women reported nonconsensual sexual touching, 20 percent had been followed down the street, 14 percent had been flashed, and 9 percent had been “forced to do something sexual” while out and about.”
(sort of small sample size but) Yep yep yep yep. I’m glad this includes gay men. And it’s not just that it happens, it’s that there are so few spaces to recover, where there are people who aren’t going to question the experience or the reaction, or judge the victim instead of the perpetrator.
