to wonder if this is so normalised it's not reported?

[TruthOnTrial]

I was walking along a main street off Regents today.

As I crossed the road I noticed a man sort of thrusting a bit and grappling with himself a bit, with a semi on, or bit more than a semi.

I then realised he was facing a woman who was trying to lock her bike to some scaffolder, so couldn't just walk away.

Maybe she did report him, but I warned a couple of other women that were walking toward him past me (as I was heading in the opposite direction).

What's the charge for something like this, is it seen as serious, or, oh just ignore him type thing?

I think I was a bit shocked and it didn't quite hit home until after I'd walked by and pieced together what was going on.

@knitclubber - I think your next line is something about women doing this too. Wasn’t it just yesterday you saw a woman with her hand down her trousers thrusting her pelvis at a man in the bakery aisle in Tesco?

I'd go with shoplifter trying to readjust the ill-gotten gains.

As a student on holiday in Barcelona a man was perving on me & couple of friends walking round a well known tourist attraction. We were horrified when we spotted he had clearly started touching himself etc, we just ran, we were too shocked to even think of reporting it.

You could have stood with the woman at her bicycle and alerted her to what was happening and made sure that he didn’t try to do anything else as she was on her own and seemed not to be aware of his presence. Also you could have called the police. You walked in by.

In= on

Two friends were sightseeing a while ago when someone tried to wank at them. They started laughing and taking photos and video-ing him, he got quite distressed and ran away. They ran after him, but gave up the chase after a while. Being laughed at wasn't the reaction he was seeking, evidently.

I'm not ashamed of myself at all, I did the safest thing by telling other women that were also close by.

I think it's vile to try to pin this on me!

How do you think I felt seeing that? Don't you think I felt intimidated and shocked.

There were 3 of us nearby/close.

Thanks for your support in this. If you came here just to have a pop at me thats savage, just jog on

I wish I had the presence of mind to do that Juells but safety in numbers heh! Theres a risk in doing this alone that he'll turn on you. I wasn't sure whether he was drunk or drugged. He certainly wasn't clean and was possibly street dwelling.

TBH is he isnt actually exposing himself, thers not much you can do , or half the youths in the country would be arrested for low slung pants, hand hown their Kalvins, nut clutching.

Knitclubchatter. You think this ok behaviour then?

Frankly, it's worrying the excusing on here.

I see men 'adjusting' themselves all the time it seems a male past time!

I wouldn't have posted about that. It was bloody obvious.

I felt uncomfortable leaving so I went back, and no, I didn't want to see any more myself, but I pointed it out to other women and hoped the woman didn't feel alone with it.

I don't think it's wise to engage with it because of high risk of escalation,and the woman left whilst we were there. I just wish I'd taken a video face on of him whilst he was occupied with 'impressing' her! That way I'd have had skmeito out to the police in reporting g it online later after I'd finished my meeting.

*some evidence

The behaviour is not acceptable at all, I’m just not sure how police can successfully proceed. It would have to be a pattern of behaviour I presume, so multiple reports of unsocial behaviour?