Sexual Harassment Stories and Experiences

Al, New Mexico    
     I was accused of stalking my ex.
     After going back and forth for two years, we finally we broke up. 
     During the time that my wife and I were not talking, I met an another girl in My Space.  I was not interested in her since I was just coming out from a long term relationship.  […]

Kellie, Florida
     I am a female Emergency Department physician.  I became friends with a coworker, a female Nurse Practitioner employed by the same medical staffing service for which I work. 
     At first, it seemed we had a great deal in common: both had 3 kids, struggled with long hours, stressful work, childcare, etc. much the […]

Marie, South Carolina    
     I met my ex-boyfriend at church. We went out to lunch. He was very friendly and charming. I did feel uncomfortable when he left at least three messages while I was driving home from our date then he spammed me with emails. I didn’t respond. He kept sending me emails. I finally […]

Scared   
     I’m 25 yo and was employed as a manager in a department store. A male coworker started making sexually explicit comments to me about 2 years ago which included his telling me what he would do to me if we were ever alone.
     I told him what he was saying was inappropriate, but he continued. I […]

Kellie, Michigan    
     In late 2004, my brother-in-law was deployed to Iraq.  About four months later, left he began calling my house, making disgusting requests.
     He started out saying that my sister thought that she and I could pose for nude photos…she could send him her photos and I could give my husband mine.  Next, he […]

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 […]

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 […]

Scared Grace, Texas
     After over a year in an abusive relationship, I left for good. Never to return.  I moved in with a girlfriend who had a spare room, and tried to move on with my life.   
     One night, I came home late from a night out.  I walked into my bedroom, turned on the light and found my […]

Valerie, Illinois
     In the winter of ‘01, I was working as a bartender in  Texas. An older man began coming in every day, but no one ever talked to  him. He was a bit unkempt, nervous, unshaven, long-haired, and I felt a  little sorry for him. So, I struck up a conversation with him one […]