Sometimes all it takes is sharing one's street harassment stories to raise awareness about the problem and help lead to a solution.

Have you ever been whistled or honked at, commented on in a sexual way (positively or negatively), leered at, groped, masturbated in front of, followed, or assaulted while in public? If so, please share your story and it will be added to the Stop Street Harassment blog.

In addition to stories on the Stop Street Harassment blog, there are heart-breaking, shocking, and horrific street harassment stories on the following websites:

• Hollaback Arkansas
• Hollaback Australia
• HollaBack Boston
• HollaBack Chicago
• HollaBack DC
• Holla Back New York
• HollaBack San Francisco
• Street Harassment Project

• Feministing's post on catcalling
• Jezebel's post on sexual harassment in the spring
• Racialicious' post on catcalling
• Shakesville's post about the right to go out
  
• The F Word's post about street harassment
• What About Our Daughters' post on the restricted freedom of movement of black women

Note: In public, we are all susceptible to verbal, physical, and sexual attacks from complete strangers. People who are "different" or less "powerful" are particularly vulnerable to attacks by strangers. However, this site focuses primarily on the experiences of women being harassed in public by men.

In a society where politics and business are still male-dominated, men make more money than women, and women are depicted in the media and advertisements simply as sexual objects, women as a category are less powerful than men as a category. Because of this overall power difference, the dynamics of men harassing women on the street has a different underlying meaning than if a man harasses another man, a woman harasses another woman or a woman harasses a man. The underlying meaning is further complicated by how women have historically been men's legal and sexual property. Within my own lifetime, husbands were legally allowed to rape their wives.