they do it simply because they can get away with it. I hate it and it makes me feel so uncomfortable. It happens everywhere, the souq, the malls, shopping centers, simply sitting in the car and it is awful.

I think that because they can get away with it, and there really is not a definitive way to stop it that they do it. Just like men other places in the world, for example, get away with brushing up on a woman in public transportation with their privates. I think, for the victim in this sense, really has to make a scene for it to stop, but that is hard when it is almost everyone just staring.

The only time I have seen them stop is if my husband gets in their face and gets pissed. It also does not matter what the woman is wearing, it happens to me when I am in abaya or western clothes. I really hate it and have never felt as uncomfortable out in public as I have here and I have traveled all over the world.