masturbating

Carol

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When I was fifteen, I was selling chocolates door to door with another girl from scouting. We were standing by the door at the last house in the street and I saw a men sitting in his car, waving at us. With my childish and innocent mind, I thought he also wanted to buy chocolates. So I stepped towards him, right next to his door. Only then I saw him masturbating, and he said smiling ‘Do you want to see me come?’. I shouted at my friend and we runned as fast as we could, too afraid to look back and to remember his license plate. We runned around the block and stopped for a moment, where an older women asked us what was going on. We told it, and all she could say was ‘Oh okay, but that isn’t that bad’ and laughed a bit. Then we went on with selling the chocolate, but after some minutes we got too scared and ran back to our scouts leaders,women. They comforted us and went straight to the police with us. They recognized the fear and we stayed together for the rest of the day. So, don’t just laugh it off, but support little and also not little girls going through such things, it really means a lot!

S.

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I sat at the train. Next to me sat a man reading a newspaper. He looked very strange at me and I didn’t get why. Then I realised that he was masturbating behind his newspaper. I went to the train conducter an told him what happened. The only thing he did was looking at me and my clothes (I like waring a little bit sexy styles and red lipstick) and asked: “Could it be that this is happening to you more often…?” This was the only thing he did. I was so confused and told it to my (conservative) mom and she also said, I shouldn’t be wondering about this because I was wearing red lipstick and that this was MY FAULT. I feel so angry and helpless.

Ella

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I was on my first solo travelling trip aged 21 and I’d gone to Canada (from the UK) thinking it was the safest place. I decided to go to the cinema in the city to fill my evening so I didn’t feel lonely. About ten minutes into the film, a man sat down in my row after seeing I was the only person sitting alone, without a male companion. He was behaving strangely throughout. I was so scared of what he might do that I stayed glued to my seat, eyes firmly on the screen but not watching at all. After about an hour of seeing him fidget and swear under his breath and make strange sounds with his mouth, I finally turned to look at him. His penis was out and he was masturbating violently. I lunged over the seats in front of me – he was blocking my exit out of the row and he knew it – and ran out to tell staff. By the time they got into the screen, he had run out the back exit. They were very supportive and kind but they didn’t call the police. It put me off travelling solo ever again. It put me off going to the cinema alone.