@engineer,
This interests me a lot.
I am wondering if harassment is growing, and if so why.
I was born in late 1941.
I was a sort of naive girl but not stupid, and I don't remember routine harassment, really at all, until the big one, when I was raped in my early twenties. I wasn't ugly, so that didn't send the fleas away all the rest of the time, before and after that. Besides, "ugly" could mean worse.
I am guessing this had more to do with what year it was and where I lived.
I've no idea of the stats on all this and don't want to chase the stats to find out.
It may be that I lived, by the luck of the draw, even when my family collapsed,
in places thugs dressed up for, such as my aunt's bungalo.
Still, I don't remember this groping stuff going on all over the place.
I also lived in Venice, CA for years, once in design studio, later with home. I can't afford to go there now, heh. I met my husband there, but he wasn't a groper type.
So.... are all these groping fits due to TV, movies, or media promotion? do men now walk with tentacles out doing feelies?