Sexual Harassment Stories and Experiences

Susie, Texas
     In July, I began a new job with the company I have been with for 16 years. My new boss started the same day as me.
     Almost immediately came the “pat on the back” and the “neck rubs.”  This is something most of us are accustomed to, but we know it’s no big deal.  It wasn’t but […]

Kira, California  
     I guess I am here because I feel I need to tell someone what has been happening to me….
     I live in a very bad area, three or four blocks away from a main intersection where hookers always walk around… The men in my neighborhood seem to think that any woman walking down […]

Sarah
     I just started hostessing at this classy restaurant a couple of week ago, and at first, I really really liked my head manager. He seemed to put the employees first, like he wanted to look out for us.  My interview was all about stuff that I do for fun and 10 minutes later I was hired with a […]

Rebecca, Maryland
     When I was a little girl a very strange man from my church would send me birthday cards every year.  Later, when I came home from college, he began to follow me around church, and would call my friends and family.  (It took two years of being stalked for me to realize I […]

Jo Jo, Arizona 
     I started seeing this guy last year.  When we were together he treated me like an object, and once told me when we were off-roading in the desert that he could “rape me, kill me, and bury me” and that nobody would find me. 
     I was stunned at his sick comment..which at  the time i thought he was joking.
     A […]

Meagan, Michigan   
     One night, my father let a stranger stay the night on our couch.  While everyone was asleep, the man came in to my room and raped me.
     At the time, I was too young to understand what he had done. I kept that inside me my whole life.
     I am now 15 […]

Marie    
     My mother’s brother was born with a mental disability and has progressively gotten worse over the past 10 years.  I don’t really remember when the harrassment started, mostly because I have tried hard to block out the memories. 
     From the time I was 7 until about 12, I would find myself in extremely uncomfortable […]