Sexual Harassment Call It Out
Sexual Harassment that can happen in a Public Place, including College
This can include:
- Making sexually explicit comments or gestures in public – whether
on the street, in college, in a bar, on public transport or another public place - Leering or unwanted staring
- Sitting uncomfortably close on public transport
- Unwanted questions about someone’s sex life
- Unwanted sexual attention or asking for sex
- Upskirting (taking pictures or filming up someone’s skirt without them knowing)
- Flashing
- Following someone
- Stalking (a pattern of obsessive behaviour which can include sending unwanted presents, making unwanted communication, damaging property, physical or sexual assault. This can be perpetrated by an ex-intimate partner, a stranger or anyone known to the victim)
- Groping (unwanted sexual touching anywhere on the body, which could be sexual assault)
- Spiking (when someone puts alcohol or drugs into another person’s drink or their body without their knowledge and/or consent)
We wish to support you if you are a victim of sexual harassment, please tell a member of staff or report it on-line on the student portal. While the targets of sexual harassment are usually women and girls, some men will also be impacted, we wish to support any victim.
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