Hi readers,

Abbi was 13 when she was first sexually harassed in the street. I was walking to the bus stop in my school uniform and a man who was waiting at a stoplight in a car with his friend asked me how much I charged. She was so young that she didnt understand what the man was suggesting, but she knew she felt confused and uncomfortable.

Eleanor was 14 when three men in their 20s started following her and calling her sexy as she walked through the town center. I was a child, and it felt awful being sexualized like that, the 23-year-old said, adding that she was wearing a baggy top and jeans. She ran into a shop to escape them, but the experience stayed with her. It taught her to be wary of male attention for the rest of her teens.

When HuffPost U.K.s Rachel Moss asked women to share their first experience with sexual harassment, her inbox was flooded with responses. She wasnt necessarily surprised after all, she says, you only have to chat about this topic with your girlfriends to recognize what a universal experience it is.

But one detail did catch Rachel off guard: Many women recalled being harassed or abused while wearing their school uniform. According to a new survey by Plan International U.K., two-thirds of young women ages 14-21 have experienced unwanted sexual attention or harassment in a public space and 35% said it first happened while they were wearing a school uniform. Women have also been sharing their stories online after a teenage character on Netflix s Sex Education detailed being sexually harassed.