To ask how many women have either been sexually harassed in the street in the teenager or have a daughter who has?

The first time I was sexually harassed I was 7. There are no women in my life it hasn't happened to.

Yea as a teenager in my school uniform it was a given (back in the 90s). I’ve gained my invisibility cloak now I’m mid 40s though.

If you have somehow reached 20 without ever being sexually harassed (which I very much doubt, tbh), including online, then I’m genuinely delighted for you. I hope you continue to avoid it.

What are you hoping to discover with this thread? It seems a bit prurient - lots of “oh, that’s terrible” from you. You doing a spot of trauma tourism?

You haven't yet.

It may not be the case that she's not been harrassed. It may simply be the case that some interactions were normalised so she never thought about it. The bar for SH has been raised (or lowered?) in recent years and a lot of things we used to think were normal now begin to look quite sinister.

Millennial, teenager mainly in the 90's, not technically a street but public place so I'll add mine...

• Train station: man in his 50-60's flashed me and a friend
• Alone on a beach a man (40's) approached me and offered oral sex and bragged about how good he was at it.
• BBQ event for charity, friends step Dad groped me (it was crowded) while grinning knowing I wouldn't say anything - creepy fucker.

Not much cat calling that I remember but it was so normalised maybe we didnt notice much and in the workplace it was awful, I was often asked openly by men old enough to be my Dad if I wanted to sneak off to the first aid room 🙄

I don't know many women that haven't and Im angry for teenagers that still have to put up with this crap

In my 20s (2000s) when walking on a street in a touristy area of the city on my lunch break in heels and smart clothes - shouts and whistles and comments.

In my late teens and early 20s (early 2000s) when jogging in the street in the city I lived in - e.g. when I wore a red t-shirt "go on Baywatch!"

In my early teens (1990s) at a large arena alt rock gig in a city - first time I was flashed (by a gross man in his 50s)

In my mid teens (1990s) in a lane near my old primary school in a small town - cornered by a group of boys in the year below me at school who made comments about my breasts and groped me

In my late teens (late 90s, early 00s), comments I remember include "she'd be pretty if she lost some weight" just pointed at me like an object. And in clubs it was completely normal for some disgusting sleazebag to try grinding against your bum before even making eye contact. Cue swearing and shoving and all that but it was gross.

It's been less as I've got older and fatter and uglier and I've been accompanied by children. I can't comment on any increases or decreases, just my own lived experience. I get less of it now but I think that's because I'm in my 40s and entering my invisible years. Comments I get in public now are more "I love those boots" "you look fabulous" "can I just say that lipstick looks amazing on you" and they tend to be from women.

Incredibly common in the 70s, particularly around building sites. Football fans on the tube were particularly awful. Everything from wolf whistles to ‘ Give us a kiss darling’
Glad I’m old now!

I think things on the street have possibly got a bit better but that's because now they can do it online!

Men haven't really become any less creepy but they used to be more overt in public.

It started when I was 11 and I'm now 50. It hasn't stopped. Am I "invisible" yet? 🙏🙏🙏

Yes, I was harassed as a teen.

Yes my daughters have been harassed. My youngest was 11 the first time.

I'm not sure that much has changed.

At 20, I wouldn’t have had the knowledge or the language to recognise half of what happened as sexual harassment, though that is exactly what it was. Sexually suggestive “jokes” from a boss that you were expected to laugh at to prove you were a good sport, comments about your body from boys at school, a “cheeky” grope on a dance floor, the pressure to sit on someone’s lap because refusing would make you “uptight”. I could go on for days.

Sexual harassment is not just men in hard hats shouting for you to get your tits out.

I used to all the time, daily, when I was younger. Not any more, for which I am very grateful. The upside of middle-age is becoming invisible to men.

I would not say I have been sexually harassed in the UK. Beeped at and a few comments in the street maybe, but I now I am in my 50s I miss that😅

One thing i will say regarding men making horrid comments from vans and passing cars, is that it happened the most often while i was in school uniform, so obviously a child

I was a teen in the 2000s. Clearly I am invisible cause I've never experienced any harassment. Not a peep. Grew up rural, now live in a city and work in construction. I've experienced sexism twice in my career - once from a woman and once from a man. But for 36 years on this earth, that's not bad!

@Furlane that's the most noticeable improvement in my lifetime.

Building sites were probably the only situation where there's really a way to do something about cat calling. If there's a sign up, with an employer's logo, then there's someone to complain to. All those random men on the street, on public transport though, who or what would we be reporting - just a random guy, on a random street.

Regularly harassed in my late teens and early twenties with whistles and name calling and I was never a "looker", just female.

One man followed me to my workplace and, despite me crossing the road several times as he was too close, inappropriately touched me. I was too embarrassed about what had happened to say anything.

I do remember one time I was with my then boyfriend when it happened. We agreed to ignore it as a friend's boyfriend had been punched for trying to intervene.

It probably stopped once I hit my thirties.

I’m in my 50’s. It started at 9 years old for me. I’ve been catcalled, grabbed/slapped on the bottom, been subjected to indecent exposure five times, grabbed on the breast, grabbed between the legs by an older boy at school. Locked in a school cloakroom (age 9) and kissed by a teacher.

As an adult I had my drink spiked by a colleague’s husband on a work night out - I went to the police. My boss made a joke of it and then terminated my contract.

I also had an old man say to my 4 year old daughter, “Little girls like you were put on this earth to tempt men like me.” Another time the same man got in our bus and put his hand on my daughter’s thigh. Obviously I shouted at him.

I really hope my teenaged daughter isn’t subjected to the same.