for character-count limitation reasons, I could not quote the entirety of the quoted traumatic experiences, so I’m quoting them here:
* "From the corner of my eye. I saw that bastard, standing on the staircase right opposite of the entrance door. He had pulled his ‘thing’ out ,and was sneering at me, flashing it and making weird noises.
"I became numb, my body turned cold, and suddenly I found myself tearing up. Though I didn't know what was happening, it was for the first time I realised what molesting meant.
"I somehow picked up my wits and just stood up. I went to my managers cabin to report him. But he ran away by then.
"Yes. He did scar me. I couldn't forget the incident for days and was terrified to be alone." - 17 years old when flashed.
* "My gaze followed the direction of her hand and I saw ‘Him’ flashing.
"Flashing an unknown body part, we were never aware existed. Both of us were girls and we never saw something that ugly. We were kids, we weren’t aware exactly what is that he is intending to do. But one thing was for sure, it wasn’t a good feeling.
"That fellow was smiling and signalling towards his dick. As if he was inviting us to hold. Something struck us, we shouted, shouted our lungs out. ‘A’s Grandfather was sitting on the same terrace reading playing chess alone. He rushed with his thick brown wooden support stick. [..]
"Today, after 2 decades as I write about it, I feel it shows the Hypocrisy of our society. Where you don’t teach your Boys and Men to behave but you expect your Girls and Women to shield themselves from profanity and abuse.
"Grow Up people!" - age 9 when flashed
* "...that guy didn't stop and for a second his eyes went down and my eyes went down with his eyes until they….landed on his stomach? WHY IS HIS SHIRT UP and why is his stomach so wrinkly. my 9 year old self didn't know that this shit was NOT his stomach but his willy dilly!
"so I ignored and ignored until a few months and it hit me! THAT SON OF A BITCH SHOWED ME HIS DICK! and I'm still traumatized and would prefer a vagina over that weird thingy…. " - 9 years old when traumatized by a willy dilly
* " Yes it happened with my aunt. She took the dog for a walk at evening there is a street next to our house which is empty most of the tym. So when she was walking a drunk man suddenly took out his dick and started to masturbate looking at my aunt. My aunt pulled him on ground by holding his collar and just gave him left, right and centre. Then neighbour came out and called cops. Her son was working in U.S and cops had said that she will have to go to court regularly and stuff. So she just gave some money to cops and asked them to give that person a good police station treatment and leave him in 2 days. "
* "When I saw, I just freaked out. Looking back on it, I sometimes wonder why that man flashed at me sitting on our garden wall. Although I was developed, and I was not very beautiful, and just a child.
"To answer your second question, I ran back inside and didn’t tell anyone. To this day, none of my family know, and as for that pedeophile, I never saw him again.
"Men- it’s disrespectful and disgusting for you to flash at others, especially children. Please don’t." - just a child :rolleyes:
* "A man walked slowly down the platform, he stops infront of me, his head is down. I am a bit surprised and wait for him to say something. I am thinking tourist maybe… then he unzips his pants, lifts his top up and flashes me. No eye contact from him.
"Oh shit I think. No one else is looking our way. I step to the side, he doesn't move, so I take another step away. I put as much aggression as I can into my voice and tell him to put it away already, it's not fucking on.
"He zips up and starts walking slowly down the platform again, head still bowed. I was really uncomfortable with what happened and being next to the tube tracks made the hair on the back of my neck stand up.
"I reported him to the station office and then walked to a different tube station to catch a different Line home." -adult
* "It was only when I looked away and he hadn't left that I looked back over the counter, and realised he had whopped his willy / manhood on to the counter and clearly wanted a reaction, (although possibly not the one he got from me!)
"Looking at his "member", I decided upon the "no real reaction" approach, and nonchanantly lit up a cigarette, stared casually out of the window, and told him to "put it away", (very calmly).
"I did have other options, as I had realised there was a stanley knife right by my hand on a filing cabinet (for opening boxes). I shall leave it to your all too vivid imaginations as to what I could have done with this knife, and what crossed my mind. (...)
"A little bit surprised my "flasher" left, but didn't bank on the fact I immediately noted his number plate and called the Police.
"I wasn't traumatised, more amused than anything, and found the whole incident typical of my life in terms of craziness.
"I was completely not traumatised, only amused, but thought little of it, nor did I expect it to come to much until a couple of months later when the Police phoned me up.
"Apparently this guy had totally admitted to the offence, and it turned out he was married with two children. He had been fined £300 and bound over to keep the peace for two years.
"I suppose it was odd that as the apparent "victim" I was never given any compensation, so I assume that only the government benefited financially from my experience " -whore
* " i laughed and said it looks fugly " - teenager