This is freaky. I suppose some girls just dumb up and let guys go at it. Has anyone on this forum living in Tokyo seen this occuring?
Taken from:
http://www.asiansexgazette.com/
Female commuters in Japan's packed trains are in the grip of terror thanks to rampant groping that has reached record levels, according to Shukan Taishu.
More than 2,000 train molesters were arrested in Tokyo alone last year, three times the number picked up in 1996.
And their methods of attack are becoming more sophisticated. The atrocious crowded conditions on trains in which thousands of commuters are stuffed into the same carriage is making it almost impossible to devise methods to counter the scourge of the subways.
"Lines prone to groping attacks all share the common feature of having long gaps between stations and numerous express trains that run for some time before they stop. They're lines where women are forced to remain immobile in a carriage for a considerable distance with no means of escape," Masaki Ikegami, an expert in the groping problem, tells Shukan Taishu. "Conditions are ideal for the train gropers."
MPD data shows that the vast majority of train molestations occur during the morning rush periods when it's easier for gropers to approach women, remain obscured and to make a clean getaway. Women are also often hurrying to get to work or school and thus less likely to collar an attacker. Gropers are also using online bulletin boards to exchange information about tasty targets, or even to recruit fellow travelers so they can hunt in packs.
"I've had times when I've been swarmed over and had my panties ripped down my legs during the two minutes it took to get from one station to another. There were several pairs of hands working simultaneously," says a young university student who was attacked by a group of train molesters on an Osaka subway line. "If you're crowded together in a packed train and being felt up, it's hard to know exactly who's doing the feeling."
Groping expert Ikegami adds that molesters have recently started turning away from regular targets.
"The most surprising part of the whole problem is how the victims are getting increasingly younger. Nowadays, it's becoming more common for elementary school pupils to be attacked than high school students because they're usually too terrified to tell anybody what has happened to them," he says. "Even if the perpetrator is caught, they'll usually be given the benefit of the doubt because they can claim the little kids are just making stuff up."
Samu Yamamoto, author of "Chikan no Hyakka (Encyclopedia of Groping)," urges that something be done to combat the railway perverts, even if it looks like women are going to have to help themselves.
"Of course, the biggest problem is the guys out there who are doing the groping, but I'd say there's nowhere else in the world where the trains are as crowded at morning and night as they are here. The crowded conditions virtually encourage gropers. In fact, conditions are so bad, it's fair to say that railway carriages are virtual 'groper incubators,'" Yamamoto says.
Many railway companies have adopted women-only carriages to combat molesters, but the vast majority are reluctant to do so, especially during peak travel periods, for fear of making the already almost unbearable crowding of carriages even worse. Yamamoto says some train riding tactics can help women thwart perverts, including standing with their backs to the train door and facing into the carriage, holding a bag in front of vulnerable targets on the body and letting out screams as soon as they've been touched. Pinching probing digits and stamping on feet have also proved effective counters in the past.
Some young schoolgirls, still the most frequent targets of molesters, have developed what are proving to be a stinging defense against molesters.
"Some of them are putting needles in amongst all the gadgets they have hanging off the straps of their mobile phones," groping specialist Yamamoto tells Shukan Taishu. "I've heard schoolgirls bragging amongst themselves about how many times they've used the needles to jab gropers who've gotten too frisky with them."
This girl has the right idea