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

[Carla786]

For context I'm Gen Z. I live in a very quiet neighbourhood & through my teens was never harassed. There's lots of building works in my area often but builders have always been fine & so has everyone else. I've never witnessed anyone else my age being harassed either (nor adult women). Some of my friends are the same, some unfortunately not (most don't live in my area)

However, I know this is not typical. I've read so much on here about people being harassed in school uniform, having daughters harassed etc. How common is this? Surveys show pretty high results too...

Was it always like this? Has it got worse or better? I've read some arguments it was worse in 70s-80s, others that online misogyny & porn has made harassment of teens worse.

Sorry, I meant 'as a' teenager, not 'in the'. Must ask MNHQ to change it.

Most times when I went out to be honest. I still get it now and again if I'm out on my own without my husband and kids, but it's usually just looking rather than comments. As a teen it varied from boys my own age to adult men, starting from when I was about 13.

A survey showed 97% of women aged 18-24 have been sexualy harassed. My only surprise was that it wasn't 100%. I'm mid 40s and haven't really seen any change in the last 30 years, other than building sites being less of a problem these days.
I think body type impacts how bad it is for some women though - I'm very curvy and from chats with friends I seem to get more random comments than much more attractive but more athletically built friends.

All the time.

Was a teen in the 90s. Yes.

Disgusting ..how many men do this, I don't want to think. Presumably a lot of repeat offenders,,but still...

Are cities & towns worse, I wonder? Rural areas less? Or not?

What's the plan for the information you're asking for? If you ask for people to share their experiences of abuse, they should have an understanding of why you're asking and what you intend to do with the information?

Mid 40s and it’s got worse

i was a teen in the 70’s it was rife on the streets and in the workplace.

I was a teenager in the 90s. It started in last year of primary and didn't really end until I was pregnant at the age of 25. I have been cat called in school uniform by men, assaulted on a bus a couple of times, grabbed in clubs and been subject to inappropriate comments from colleagues and patients. All because I have a very large bust. It was literally all the time.

I'm in my mid 40s. So I was a teen in early 90s. I was constantly sexually harassed including as an 11 year old by an older boy at school and one of the teachers. I had two instances of serious sexual assault and endless instances of being touched up on public transport. Lived in a fairly safe city with low crime rates although I do wonder whether this was due to non-reporting. Was also approached by a man in a car as a 15 year old offering me an "opportunity" to participate in adult film industry.
I think my experience is quite "normal" sadly.

I was a teen in the 70s. It was regarded as part of life. That's what happened. If you were lucky, it was just comments.
I started work in the 80s and it was commonplace in the workplace as well.
It was only later that I realised it didn't have to be part of life for girls and women.

All the time as a teen and in my twenties. Stuff shouted out of vans. Used to hate walking past building sites. I actually stopped running in my 30s because I got so sick to death of men saying stuff as I ran past.

Slightly relieved to now be in my mid 40s and largely invisible.

Teen in the 90s and got this both on the town my school was in, and the rural farming community I lived in.

Now have a teenager of my own and have seen them and their female friends experience this in towns and cities.

It only stopped for me when I piled on weight. Now just get straight abuse from men and boys instead.

I was a teenager in the 90s and it was constant. You just ignored it - pretended you didn't hear or see them. Going out clubbing it was completely normal to get felt up.

It lessened once I was in my late 20s, and hasn't happened at all since my late 30s. I love being invisible now, such a relief.

We had a couple of creepy teachers too - one was eventually fired for having a relationship with a student (Y11). The other would make comments about top buttons and short skirts. Would never get away with it now, at the time we just thought they were sad old men and warned each other about them.

Had a whistle or a car beep a couple of times. Nothing for years though. Hope I'm not tempting fate!

My experience in the 70s and 80s meant that walking past building sites was like walking the gauntlet. When there was a renovation near where I lived, I used to have to take the long route round to the station and back. It was awful.
Even very casually, in the street, it was always "give us a smile sweetheart" or "cheer up darling, it might never happen!".

I was a teen in the 70s, lived in both a small town and north London. Harassed routinely - everything from wolf-whistles to cars stopping so the witless fucks in them could yell sexual suggestions, snide remarks from passing twats to attempted groping on the tube, and I was attacked when I was 18.

Depressingly, it wasn’t massively different at work - I started full-time work at 15 in a field where men outnumbered women about 15 to 1, and many of them very much resented us being there at all, let alone as their peers.

Yep awful in 80's and 90's. White van man.

I remember being sexually harassed while walking home from primary school in year 6! It really frightened me. Nobody cared though. Parents didn't and school didn't.

More recently, I was walking home from work mid afternoon in the Winter. Dressed for warmth head to toe including gloves. A driver shouted SLAG at me. I just looked at him like he had a repulsive face and he drove off. (I actually couldn't see his face due to shadows and glare, but I still screwed my face up to make him feel small and ugly)

I am 40.

It was bloody constant as a teenager in 80s/90s

100% of women are harassed at some point. 100%. I do not even need to run statistics for it.
Assaulted, then is when the number goes down. But sexually harassed, no doubt 100% by teen years.

I was a teen in the 90s and was sexually harassed regularly, when walking in the street, on trains, walking to school, even had a few creepy comments from teachers, doing a part time job in a shop etc. It’s continued as I’ve got older.

It’s the same for teen girls now, although they spend less time in the situations we did. We give our daughter lifts to and from places which stops a lot of it, but pervy, creepy men have stared at our daughter when with us from when she was about 12.

I was a teen in the 90s and was sexually harassed regularly, when walking in the street, on trains, walking to school, even had a few creepy comments from teachers, doing a part time job in a shop etc. It’s continued as I’ve got older.

It’s the same for teen girls now, although they spend less time in the situations we did. We give our daughter lifts to and from places which stops a lot of it, but pervy, creepy men have stared at our daughter when with us from when she was about 12.

Grim...

I watched an LBC clip on YouTube about street sexual harassment a while ago & several builders commented that catcalling could get you dismissed normally now. Has general builder behaviour improved at least? Now thread comments on more recent hatassment seem to generally mention random men harassing rather than builders.