You may think it is enough to build walls, put up a roof,
and live in the house, to keep yourself from being jacked off at by random men.
But this is not enough. Should you be lucky enough to have a garden, put a gate
around it, make it high, but this will not keep someone from sitting on the
road and playing with his penis at you.
You may think that this is not related to you at all; it’s
just a man caught at a stray moment on a road that has a decent amount of tree
cover on a hot afternoon. This is not true. You know this because he is sitting
right outside your gate directing his gaze at the young woman working inside
the house, at her desk, doing accounts, The light is on, and you can see her
typing. This is obviously highly arousing (perhaps you will want to make this
her fault- she was provoking him by poking at her calculator).
But for the last few moments his gaze has been on you, and
because you are weighed down by the bottles of detergent and club soda that you
carried home from the store on foot, you aren’t really paying attention to his
hand rapidly moving up and down. When you notice him pointing his penis towards
you unfortunately the instinct is to shriek and run inside. An instinct you
have to fight to reach into your bag to hunt for your phone. Should he threaten
you, you could run into the house and lock yourself in, but should he overpower
you and come into the house with you, there is little you can do.
And then before you know it he does, and he takes off around
the corner, leaving you with the unpleasant image of being threatened by some
strange dick, and the fear that this situation could escalate to something even
more physically threatening. The police
are no help. You did not have the presence of mind to take down a full license
plate number, and without this they do not want to interrupt their Sunday
afternoon nap. You have the last two digits, but that is not enough.
The men who look after the neighbouring house for some fancy
politician type do not care much, they have a camera trained on the road, perhaps
they can get me a license plate off the footage, but they seem bereft of all
expression when I request the footage.
This has happened before, another man who works on the road
tells me. That time this guy hung around for 45 minutes, and frightened a group
of young girls returning from school. But no one complained. We do not know if
it was the same guy. He was wearing a helmet, so I have at once seen too much,
and not enough of him to be able to recognise him.
The police return my call after 30 minutes. If it happens again
please let us know. Again we will interrupt our snooze to hear you complain. He
didn’t do anything to you right? So why do you care? Let it go madam, we have
other things to do.
It seems like there is very little you can really do to keep
yourself from being masturbated at without your consent. Perhaps by next Sunday afternoon, which is
really the only time the road is this deserted in daylight hours, I shall buy a
gun (look I married an American, it was bound to show eventually). A girl can
dream.
