Men have taken to Reddit to share their most harrowing tales of sexual harassment.

After one user named JohnMyers17 asked: 'Men of Reddit, have you been sexually harassed and if so what did you do?' hundreds of people rushed to share their stories.

The post was marked as 'serious' meaning that jokes or puns were off the cards, with men recalling incidents that had happened in bars, clubs and, in some cases, even in the workplace.

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Hundreds of men have taken to Reddit to share their disturbing stories of sexual harassment - from inappropriate comments in the workplace from female co-workers, to being groped on the dancefloor

A lot of respondents, still shaken by their ordeal, were quick to suggest that, if the gender roles had been reversed, the attacks may well have resulted in a conviction.

Anonymous user workonspace recalled: 'When I was an IT intern at 22, I worked with a middle aged woman who would constantly harass me.

'If I was fixing her computer, she'd say stuff like "while you're down there..." She would do this at company outings too, and it made me incredibly uncomfortable.

'I didn't do anything except laugh uncomfortably and try to avoid her at every opportunity.'

Another user recounted a chillingly similar tale, saying: 'I was on my knees fixing a door handle. Some of the women walked by and said, "That's where men need to be."

'I did nothing, but I knew had the situation been reversed, I would have lost my job.'

'When I was working in a pub a hen party had a list of dares. One of them had a dare that said "Touch a random guy's penis". 'She ran up to me as I was collecting glasses and shoved her hand down my trousers,' one said

Wanderlustian shared an even more disturbing tale about a colleague who, he claimed, got away with her behaviour because she was the manager's daughter.

'(She)would routinely spank my butt while walking by when nobody else was around, talk about how since I'm tall I would really ravage her the way she needs, would cup the area of my server apron over my d***, lots of other low key creeper stuff like that,' he recalled.

'I was also young and didn't know how to stand up for myself the way I do now.'

Many of the respondents' anecdotes happened in bars and clubs. One man recalled: 'When I was working in a pub a hen party had a list of dares.

'One of them had a dare that said "Touch a random guy's penis."

One Reddit user, known only as iworkonspace, recalled: 'If I was fixing her computer, she'd say stuff like "while you're down there..." She would do this at company outings too, and it made me incredibly uncomfortable'

'She ran up to me as I was collecting glasses and shoved her hand down my trousers. She also had very long and very sharp nails.

'I remember her screaming "But you're a man!!" when I told her to leave the building before I called the police. The rest of the party turned on me and called me every homophobic name under the sun and left.'

Raskoln1kov recalled a similar experience. He said: 'Was at a bar in New Orleans a few months ago when a waitress randomly grabbed my D (over the pants) because she "wanted to know what I was working with".

'I just laughed but I cant even imagine this happening if genders were reversed.'

Clockworkblk agreed, saying: 'Yep working in a bar as a male leaves you pretty damn open to sexual assault/harassment. Lots of random groping/hugs/kisses etc on a very regular basis.'

Another wrote: 'I got groped at a bar once by a 30-something year old lady. Like full on palmed my crotch. Before that she kept asking to feel my arms, I declined and moved away from her and she followed me.

'When I was a little younger, I think 18, I got this girl's number on the beach and texted her for weeks. She admits to being 16 and I immediately end things. She cyber stalked me for a little.

'Fast forward a few months and she saw me on a fishing pier. We talked for about ten minutes and she kissed me mid conversation. I backed away and she kicked my tackle box off the pier. It was a bad day.'

Another was celebrating turning 18 when he felt someone 'thoroughly grab my asscheek and I hear a slightly slurred "ARE YOU REALLY ALLOWED IN HERE" (in a joking manner but still) I turn around and see a 50 or so year old lady looking at me.