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<blockquote data-quote="Umbran" data-source="post: 6866407" data-attributes="member: 177"><p>It gets very, very difficult. For example, a lady of my acquaintance was groped at a convention in Boston recently. She'd gone to the club dance in the evening, and started chatting with a guy. It seemed reasonable enough to speak with him, as he was on Security staff. She was dressed in, "going out dancing," attire and the guy makes a comment of how she looks like she's Dominant. She uncomfortably replied, "Um, no..." and the next thing she knows her wrists are pinned to the wall and she's getting felt up, with him saying, "Well, then you must be a Sub...." No active consent on her part.</p><p></p><p>This was in the middle of the hall, in view of *DOZENS* of people. And not a one of them said boo. Onlookers assumed that is she wasn't screaming and slapping him that anything happening was consensual, and at 2 AM all the kids had gone to bed, so the ideas of acceptable public touching were a little relaxed. And, social pressure being what it is, she didn't make a big public fuss.</p><p></p><p>She spoke to me about it afterwards. The convention has a mechanism for people to report incidents, even if they weren't the victim. So, I reported it for her. It turns out that he had several complaints against him that weekend, and while no legal action was taken, he's been permanently banned from the convention.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Umbran, post: 6866407, member: 177"] It gets very, very difficult. For example, a lady of my acquaintance was groped at a convention in Boston recently. She'd gone to the club dance in the evening, and started chatting with a guy. It seemed reasonable enough to speak with him, as he was on Security staff. She was dressed in, "going out dancing," attire and the guy makes a comment of how she looks like she's Dominant. She uncomfortably replied, "Um, no..." and the next thing she knows her wrists are pinned to the wall and she's getting felt up, with him saying, "Well, then you must be a Sub...." No active consent on her part. This was in the middle of the hall, in view of *DOZENS* of people. And not a one of them said boo. Onlookers assumed that is she wasn't screaming and slapping him that anything happening was consensual, and at 2 AM all the kids had gone to bed, so the ideas of acceptable public touching were a little relaxed. And, social pressure being what it is, she didn't make a big public fuss. She spoke to me about it afterwards. The convention has a mechanism for people to report incidents, even if they weren't the victim. So, I reported it for her. It turns out that he had several complaints against him that weekend, and while no legal action was taken, he's been permanently banned from the convention. [/QUOTE]
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