91 percent of female students have been groped while partying – UK study
Out of fourteen thousand students polled in the UK, ninety one percent of them shared that they were and are regularly sexually harassed or groped while partying.
While this isn’t surprising, it makes you yearn for the kind of society where male entitlement didn’t raise boys to think that they can touch and harass people; and everyone will shrug it off as harmless. There are females who grope too and this is just as lame and gross. Males in the study have also reported groping; but to a lesser and still significant sixty one percent.
Most female students report having been groped while partying. The results come from a survey done by Babe.
The study was carried out in the UK, but the issue is universal. And before you go blaming the consumption of alcohol, remember that it is possible to get drunk and have fun without sexually assaulting people or acting like a douche.
Hardcore stats
Sussex was the worst university for groping, with 96 per cent of girls experiencing it on a night out. Cardiff came in second worst at 95 per cent, Leeds in third with 94 per cent, and Oxford in fourth with 92 per cent. Edinburgh (91 per cent) and Cambridge (88 per cent) were fifth and sixth worst respectively.
The figures are extremely worrisome but the good news is that it is down by four percent. Slow progress is still progress. Simply put; getting groped while partying is not fun.
“I didn’t know the guy before it happened to be honest the whole situation was very weird. I was in a bar in my hometown getting a drink when a lady complimented me on something I was wearing. He must’ve been in his late 20s. Later on in the night I went to the main nightclub in Harrogate. On the dance floor I could feel someone repeatedly grabbing my bum. I felt so awkward and turned around as he was there. I had to move away and sort of glare at him to stop. I felt so uncomfortable especially as he was older than me and wouldn’t get the hint that I really, really wasn’t interested,” shared Susanna Cirulli, a Linguistics student at the University of Edinburgh on her experience of getting groped while partying.
No matter how lonely you think you might be, getting drunk and acting like a desperate creep, boy or girl is not a good look. It could also get you into the kind of trouble you won’t enjoy.
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