# Women: share your stories of having your crotch grabbed (when you didn't want it) **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [October 9, 2016, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-share-your-stories-of-having-your-crotch-grabbed-when-you-didnt-want-it/768105 "2016-10-09T22:32:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 265
**Author:** ![araminty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b5e925/32.png) [@araminty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/araminty)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2016, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-share-your-stories-of-having-your-crotch-grabbed-when-you-didnt-want-it/768105/265 "2016-10-15T15:36:31Z")
> [@Crazyhorse](#): > > The odds of any one random woman being in danger of sexual assault by any one random, unknown male who nods politely in passing aren’t 1 in 5 - they are so low as to be practically irrelevant to the discussion. But have you read the thread? So many women have multiple experiences of groping and other “minor” forms of assault, most of which go unreported, so they don’t get counted in the statistics used to calculate your (uncited) odds. Again. We aren’t afraid because we want to be, or because it makes sense. It’s because it keeps us safe. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-share-your-stories-of-having-your-crotch-grabbed-when-you-didnt-want-it/768105)._