Codsy: I am not a Pamuela Anderson clone... mousey brown hair, coffee eyes and a Bob Hope nose, actually. Good figure, but prefer baggy clothes. I was too inhibited until my mid-late 20s to wear leggings less someone observe the size of my bum & fat thighs (as I perceived them) too closely. Never even been in a night club, and never wore a mini-skirt until I was age 29.
I first got flashed from a car when I was 12yo, in my parents very upwardly mobile upper middle class neighbourhood. I guess it's gone from there. Lots of wolf whistles, "Hey baby" comments from cars. I walk a lot, long distances, and often by myself, so I must seem like an easy target for the sexual predators. When I was 15, had a drunk Mexican lean across to whisper lewd things in my ear, while my parents were sat at the same dinner table with me (my parents didn't realise exactly what this weirdo was saying and thought it was funny that he obviously fancied me). Had a fellow grab my boobs walking down an urban California street in broad daylight. Was groped out from a car window on my bike when I was 18. Had a barely teenage boy reach out & squeeze my breast from his bicycle when I was walking down a touristy road in Cancun (Mexico; I was with my mom that time, too). Been flashed in Norwich, too. I always yell, chase, tell them off. The only one that really shook me, was getting jumped on a small stretch of road in front of some of Norwich's most expensive houses at 6pm one Febuary evening. I chased that fellow down the road, too, but I was very spooked for a few years, afterwards, whenever anyone came up close walking behind me.
For all I know, Japanese, Nigerian, Indian men are all better behaved -- but I doubt it. IME, British men start behaving as badly as Americans/Mexicans/Italians... whenever we have long hot summers and British women are regularly baring a lot more flesh. But it does really throw me when a British man catcalls out the window of his car, because I have almost forgetten what the rest of the world is like.