Why this woman wants to make 'upskirting' a sexual offence in the UK
 

Why this woman wants to make 'upskirting' a sexual offence in the UK
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Gina Martin was watching The Killers perform at a British music festival over the summer, when two guys kept hitting on her, and wouldn't take no for an answer. What happened next made her launch a campaign to change the law.*

"Then, I saw one of them looking at a picture of my crotch on their phone. They had done it to get back at me for turning them down," Martin says.*

Martin, 25, had just experienced "upskirting"—the practice of taking secret photos or videos under a person's clothing without consent in an attempt to capture an image of their crotch area, underwear, and genitals. And, as Martin later learned, this practise is not legally classed as a sexual offence under UK law.* Read more...

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