6 von 10 US -Musikfans sagen, dass sie bei einem Live -Auftritt sexuell belästigt/angegriffen wurden. Frauen sind mehr als doppelt so wahrscheinlich wie Männer, die betroffen sind. Das häufigste Hindernis für die Berichterstattung über den Vorfall, der sowohl von 1 von 4 Männern als auch von Frauen zum Ausdruck gebracht wurde, war das Gefühl, dass sowieso nichts dagegen getan werden würde.
6 in 10 US music fans say they have been sexually harassed/assaulted at a live gig, survey suggests
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I’ve linked to the press release in the post above. In this comment, for those interested, here’s the link to the peer reviewed journal article:
https://injuryprevention.bmj.com/content/early/2025/09/16/ip-2025-045809
From the linked article:
**Six out of 10 music fans say they have been sexually harassed or assaulted at a live gig in the US**, suggest the results of a survey, published online in the journal Injury Prevention.
**Women are more than twice as likely as men to have been affected**, the responses indicate, but various barriers prevented most respondents from reporting the incident at the time.
Data from Australia, the UK, Sweden, Finland and Nigeria indicate that inappropriate sexual behaviour is prevalent at live music events. But few studies have focused on the USA or included a broad range of venues, such as festivals and large arenas, theatres, and clubs, note the researchers.
Six out of 10 (61%) respondents said they had experienced inappropriate sexual behaviour at a live music event at some point during their lifetime. A greater proportion of women (82%) than men (39%) said they had experienced sexual harassment and/or sexual assault, and 20% of the women indicated that it had happened often.
And significantly more women than men reported experiencing inappropriate sexual behaviour in large arenas and when attending live music gigs with friends and significant others.
Most respondents (88%) didn’t report the incident to the music venue concerned. Among the 574 respondents who gave their reasons, around half (48%) didn’t feel they could report it and 42% felt they could, but chose not to.
**The most common barrier to reporting the incident expressed by both 1 in 4 men and women was the feeling that nothing would be done about it anyway**.
Yeah, I’m a woman and I’ve been groped, grabbed, and grinded on at shows so many times I’ve lost count. I can think of 3 instances just this year. The last one was at a Metallica show – I kept trying to step away from the guy who was grinding himself against my ass, but he was drunk and just kept getting closer until my husband noticed what was happening and berated the man loudly and explicitly.
The excuse is usually „oh sorry, you know it’s just crowded,“ but I have no idea how that means your hand was on my tit.
editing to add that I have to wonder if the frequency for me is because women are usually a stark minority at most shows we attend as they’re most often metal/punk.
As expected, their definition of „sexual misconduct“ includes „sexual comments or jokes“ and „brushed up against my body“. Of course there is going to be a lot of brushing up against my body at a crowded live music event.
Every study like this always lumps in very benign behaviour into scary words like „sexual assault“ to get big numbers.
Not surprising, a dude rubbed his body up against my wife on a train in Rome. I didn’t notice unfortunately because I just thought the train was full and my wife moved around behind me, I look around after she moved because I thought it was strange and this dude just looks slimy and behind him there was a big hole in the crowd so in my head I was like wtf, why was he so close.
After getting off she told me, like some people will use any excuse to be a slimy piece of shit.
It’s always interesting to see these stats, I’m a man and I’ve had my junk full on groped twice, and my ass grabbed 5+ times. I’ve never been asked to do any poll/survey whatsoever on any topic. I didn’t invite or want the touching but I can’t pretend it bothered me much, I mentally moved on in about 5 minutes each time.
As a handsome guy in my late 20s, I was once sexually assaulted by a hot girl at a concert. I reported it to the security staff and they laughed at me. It’s not taken seriously.
Based off experience, yeah. Innocent until proven guilty is a good system but in crimes of mostly “he said, she said” evidence it also paints the accuser as a liar until proven correct. Even when my attacker admitted to some of his assault on me there wasn’t proof of *maliciously* sexually assaulting me, just the evidence he gave towards *accidentally* sexually assaulting me. Apparently I should’ve known that my No’s should be even louder and with an asterisk that I am not sexually attracted to CNC said out loud, but the man 10 years older than me sexually assaulting me couldn’t have possibly known I wasn’t interested in him and the fact I wasn’t raped is proof that he respected my consent from the start, I guess.
Young kids love this festival scene. The sexuality and openness is part of the experience, that’s why they go and it’s why they don’t expect anyone to do anything.
If you tell a man next to you, he’s sitting there going, “who tf do I hit and how do I get to him now.???”
They’re packed elbows to elbows — or worse, like hips to hips, chest to back, arms in the air to make room for everyone…
*They don’t really have a choice but to let the vibe be killed, or carry on!*
It’s kinda gross. But again these young people LOVE it. Drugs, being like 10% clothed… I’m not saying they ask for it, but at this point sadly, there’s just no controlling people who put themselves willingly, into this position, for pervs and worse to get their satisfaction in.
But nobody wants to disparage that because that makes you a boomer or automatic grandma status or something. Just let them be, they all know this stuff happens all the time, as the comments indicate.
And then there was Woodstock 99, where musicians were yelling at the crowd to stop molesting women in the mosh pit….
Lots of Chikan at concerts.
More grust to the mill of anti music agenda. Live gigs don’t cause perverts so why make the link. Venues are already being closed at such a rate that few kids bother learning instruments any more. Where next? Are we going to start suggesting the best way to keep women safe is if they wear a bag over their heads and maybe should only go out if they have a man with them?
Survivorship bias is real – 95% of attendees will say they had the best time ever and they saw nothing of the sort and that the scene doesn’t have a problem.
As a shorter man I like to get my self up front on concerts to have a better view. People will just push you, grind on you, spill drinks in you and unfortunately it’s the price to pay for me.
If you define „harassment“ down enough, to the point of overhearing an off-color joke of having someone brush against you in the crowd, yes.
Some guy at a rave walked by and touched my nipple, I’m a guy btw.
I would spend less time gaming and more time reading books then.
Honestly that may be an underestimate especially at EDM type shows
It’s a miracle these people can leave the house without assaulting everyone in sight. Oh, wait, they can? So it’s a choice. Got it.
You report it and they say “well we didn’t see it so we can’t do anything.” The creeps have free rein.