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BBC article on voyeur masseur

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ArabellaScott · 28/08/2021 12:33

'As a woman, you are always a little bit on edge if you are in a compromising or vulnerable position, especially when you're pregnant and you're naked and alone with a completely strange man. You are always going to be on the defensive.'

I didn't see a thread on this - article from a week ago, a pregnant woman who caught a masseuse secretly filming her (and, it transpired, around 900 other women).

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-58249002

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C4tintherug · 28/08/2021 12:58

The only reason they got him was because he admitted it, if he hadn’t admitted it, the police would have done nothing! Yet they pat themselves on the back at a job well done!
I am SO ANGRY after reading this article

FictionalCharacter · 28/08/2021 12:53

Terrible initial response from the police, basically telling her to confront the perpetrator. How dare they congratulate themselves when they didn’t act until she complained about them.

MrsOvertonsWindow · 28/08/2021 12:52

As ever, her male partner suggested she was overreacting because of her pregnancy hormones, it was her sister who told her to phone the police.

The usual scenario of male dismissal - which is why so few of these vile men ever get caught.

WutheringShites86 · 28/08/2021 12:51

So all the men she spoke to about it, whether her partner or police, basically said you're probably imagining it or he has an innocent explanation but her sister immediately said yes this is a big deal, report it.

Hmm excuse me whilst I roll my eyes back in my head at the disappointingly predictable gaslighting from the males.

Funnylittlefloozie · 28/08/2021 12:46

The voyeur was a MALE person. He was a masseur, not a masseuse. Yet again, the sex offender in question is male (and tbf, not pretending to be a woman either).

Artichokeleaves · 28/08/2021 12:41

Urgh.

I got a very woke male friend to see the problem only after he'd gone for a massage and had a male masseur instead of the usual female one, and had been shocked at how uncomfortable he was. I pointed out that was his first experience of feeling sexually vulnerable and he didn't like it. Women feel like that most of the time, and sadly like this woman, its because they usually have several experiences each of a male person taking advantage of their biology without bothering to consult them or worry about consent first.