This goes beyond crime and punishment and urges us to look at crimes like flashing through a very serious lens. Let us not be flippant and dismissive as the psychological trauma can be significant. Verbal molestation, stalking, flashing, making signs, all need to be taken seriously when the intent is proved.

In some cases, like flashing, the sexual molestation is obvious, yet others are crimes, too. It is not just the cops, but society as a whole which needs 
to look at this through the molestation prism. Just because there is no physical touch or even physical harm, we cannot tell people to simply brush it off. Often, the victims are told that they are making too much of something, or that was not the intent or purpose of this. At times, they are told to keep quiet as they were not harmed.

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Yet, these too are violations and emboldened people will escalate this, if not shown that there are extremely serious consequences. Let us educate our young people and give them the courage to complain, in case wronged. Let all of us learn that mental hurt or damage can be as debilitating as physical. Speak up strongly against these crimes.